Optimizing Health Care Environmental Hygiene

This article presents a review and perspectives on aspects of optimizing health care environmental hygiene. The topics covered include the epidemiology of environmental surface contamination, a discussion of cleaning health care patient area surfaces, an overview of disinfecting health care surfaces...

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Published inInfectious disease clinics of North America Vol. 30; no. 3; p. 639
Main Author Carling, Philip C
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published United States 01.09.2016
Subjects
Disinfection
Environmental Health
Environmental Microbiology
Hand Hygiene
Health Facilities - standards
Humans
Environmental hygiene
Hand hygiene
Hygienic practice
Optimizing disinfection cleaning
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Summary:This article presents a review and perspectives on aspects of optimizing health care environmental hygiene. The topics covered include the epidemiology of environmental surface contamination, a discussion of cleaning health care patient area surfaces, an overview of disinfecting health care surfaces, an overview of challenges in monitoring cleaning versus cleanliness, a description of an integrated approach to environmental hygiene and hand hygiene as interrelated disciplines, and an overview of the research opportunities and challenges related to health care environmental hygiene.
ISSN:1557-9824
DOI:10.1016/j.idc.2016.04.010