ArticleInternational journal of environmental research and public health2023
Implementation of an Environmental Cleaning Protocol in Hospital Critical Areas Using a UV-C Disinfection Robot.
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- Environmental contamination of carbapenem-resistant gram-negative bacteria away from isolated patients in intensive care unit: a comprehensive surveillance study.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Variation in veterans affairs hospitals' UV-C surface disinfection systems guidance documents: a qualitative content analysis.Antimicrobial stewardship & healthcare epidemiology : ASHE · 2025Article
- Preventing and Controlling Healthcare-Associated Infections: The First Principle of Every Antimicrobial Stewardship Program in Hospital Settings.Antibiotics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Review
- Kinetics of inactivation of bacteria responsible for infections in hospitals using UV-LED.Heliyon · 2024Article
- Characterization and Photocatalytic and Antibacterial Properties of Ag- and TiOMaterials (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
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- Characterization of class 1 integrons in metallo-β-lactamase-producing Acinetobacter baumannii isolates from hospital environment.BMC research notes · 2023Article
- Hospital cleaning: past, present, and future.Antimicrobial resistance and infection control · 2023Review
- Preventing Multidrug-Resistant Bacterial Transmission in the Intensive Care Unit with a Comprehensive Approach: A Policymaking Manual.Antibiotics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Review
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Abstract
Improving the cleaning and disinfection of high-touch surfaces is one of the core components of reducing healthcare-associated infections. The effectiveness of an enhanced protocol applying UV-C irradiation for terminal room disinfection between two successive patients was evaluated. Twenty high-touch surfaces in different critical areas were sampled according to ISO 14698-1, both immediately pre- and post-cleaning and disinfection standard operating protocol (SOP) and after UV-C disinfection (160 sampling sites in each condition, 480 in total). Dosimeters were applied at the sites to assess the dose emitted. A total of 64.3% (103/160) of the sampling sites tested after SOP were positive, whereas only 17.5% (28/160) were positive after UV-C. According to the national hygienic standards for health-care setting, 9.3% (15/160) resulted in being non-compliant after SOP and only 1.2% (2/160) were non-compliant after UV-C disinfection. Operation theaters was the setting that resulted in being less compliant with the standard limit (≤15 colony-forming unit/24 cm
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