Council agenda

BSAC Guideline Development and Guideline Working Groups
A document for Council to consider
This document outlines the guidelines working and development groups current in session. It reports on current
position and progress and is for information only. Where a decision on working group progress is required, this is
indicated both on the agenda and below.
1 BSAC / Vascular Society Vascular Graft Infections Guideline Working Group
Lead: Jon Sandoe (BSAC lead) & Rachel Bell (Vascular Society lead) and Nick Price.
Literature review and data extraction is on-going. Currently only three papers have met inclusion criteria.
Plan to write-up literature search and then identify suitable individuals willing to sit on a panel for
development of a guideline based on expert opinion.
2 BSAC, HIS, IPS and BIA MRSA Guideline Working Group
Overall Lead: Irwin Brown . BSAC Lead: Nick Brown
A joint group comprising representation from BSAC, HIS, BIA and IPS has been established to consider
updating the joint BSAC, HIS, ICNA MRSA guidance published 2005/6/8. BSAC will be working with BIA on
treatment and management whilst HIS and IPS will be taking diagnosis, screening, infection prevention and
control aspects forward. Following agreement on the guideline finances literature search and review is
anticipated to begin in early May.
3 BSAC, HIS, BIA Joint Guideline Development Group on MDR Gram Negative Infections
Chairs: Peter Hawkey and Peter Wilson
The infection control paper was published in JHI in November. The diagnosis and treatment paper has just
completed a process of national consultation and is being finalised for submission.
4 Therapeutic Monitoring Literature Review Group
Chair: Nick Brown. Authors: Abi Jenkins, Alison Thomson, Yvonne Semple, Nick Brown, Christine Sluman,
Alastair MacGowan, Andrew Lovering and Phil Wiffen
Details of the literature review were presented at the BSAC Spring Meeting and the survey as a poster at
ECCMID. A Guideline development meeting (expert opinion) was held in May.
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