Protocol for point prevalence surveys of healthcare-associated infections and antimicrobial use in European long-term care facilities

​This protocol supports the implementation of point prevalence surveys of healthcare-associated infections and antimicrobial use in long-term care facilities. With extensive explanatory notes, it contains an institutional questionnaire to be used to collect denominator data for the entire eligible resident population in each facility and a resident questionnaire for each resident included in the survey.

This protocol is a direct adaption of the protocol and questionnaires used by 16 EU Member States and Norway for the second such point prevalence survey in April–May 2013.