Health Care Environmental Hygiene: New Insights and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Guidance.
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DOI: 10.1016/j.idc.2021.04.005
Abstract: Recent research has significantly clarified the impact of optimizing patient-zone environmental hygiene. New insights into the environmental microbial epidemiology of many hospital-associated pathogens, especially Clostridioides difficile, have clarified and quantified the role of ongoing occult… read more here.
Keywords: health care; environmental hygiene; new insights; health ... See more keywords
The Clean pilot study: evaluation of an environmental hygiene intervention bundle in three Tanzanian hospitals
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DOI: 10.1186/s13756-020-00866-8
Abstract: Background Healthcare associated infections (HAI) are estimated to affect up to 15% of hospital inpatients in low-income countries (LICs). A critical but often neglected aspect of HAI prevention is basic environmental hygiene, particularly surface cleaning… read more here.
Keywords: intervention; cleanliness; study; training ... See more keywords