ArticleAntimicrobial stewardship & healthcare epidemiology : ASHE2022
Environmental cleaning and disinfection: Sustaining changed practice and improving quality in the community hospital.
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- What are the microbial burden and potential pathogens on hospital surfaces before and after cleaning?Frontiers in microbiology · 2026Article
- Clean to Prevent, Monitor to Protect: A Scoping Review on Strategies for Monitoring Cleaning in Hospitals to Prevent HAIs.Infectious disease reports · 2025Review
- Comparative effectiveness of a multimodal intervention package on surface cleaning and disinfection in Brazilian neonatal intensive care units.Frontiers in public health · 2025Article
- Economic Burden and Prevention Strategies for Nosocomial Infections in Ophthalmic Surgery Under the Diagnosis-Related Group Payment Model.Risk management and healthcare policy · 2025Article
- Educational intervention on biosafety with hospital hygiene and cleaning workers.Revista latino-americana de enfermagem · 2025Article
- Factors shaping cleaning and disinfection practices during the COVID-19 pandemic: A qualitative evidence synthesis.Journal of public health in Africa · 2025Review
- Hand and environmental hygiene: respective roles for MRSA, multi-resistant gram negatives, Clostridioides difficile, and Candida spp.Antimicrobial resistance and infection control · 2024Review
- In-hospital areas with distinct maintenance and staff/patient traffic have specific microbiome profiles, functions, and resistomes.mSystems · 2024Article
- Environmental cleaning and disinfection in the operating room: a systematic scoping review through a human factors and systems engineering lens.Infection control and hospital epidemiology · 2024Article
- Risk factors for transmission of carbapenem-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii in outbreak situations: results of a case-control study.BMC infectious diseases · 2024Article
- Environmental contamination with carbapenem resistantFrontiers in cellular and infection microbiology · 2024Article
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- Environmental approaches to controlling Clostridioides difficile infection in healthcare settings.Antimicrobial resistance and infection control · 2023Review
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6 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.
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Abstract
Objective: Short-term improvements in hospital room cleaning can readily be achieved but are difficult to maintain. This is particularly true for high-risk, "high-touch" surfaces. Therefore, we embarked on a process to sustain improvements in surface cleaning and disinfection to reduce hospital-acquired infection (HAI) rates. Interventions: Our environmental services (EVS) and infection prevention departments incorporated a formal education, monitoring, and feedback process for focused cleaning and disinfection of high-touch surfaces into their routine policies and procedures in 2011. Cleaning validation was performed by infection prevention liaison nurses using a fluorescent targeting method to evaluate the thoroughness of cleaning. Results: Surface cleaning performance on medical-surgical units in 2011 was 74.7%, but this rate incrementally increased in response to the interventions and has been sustained at >90% for the past 6 years. Similar patterns of improvement were observed in the operating room, labor and delivery, endoscopy suite and cardiac catheterization laboratory. Conversely, HAI rates, particularly Conclusions: EVS training, monitoring, and feedback interventions, instituted 10 years ago have enhanced our environmental cleaning and disinfection efforts in multiple areas of the hospital and have been sustained to the present. Although other concurrent initiatives to reduce infection rates also existed, the improvements in environmental cleaning were associated with dramatic reductions in HAI rates over the 10-year period.
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