Improving environmental hygiene in 27 intensive care units to decrease multidrug-resistant bacterial transmission*
Critical Care MedicinePublished 24 March 2010
Philip Carling, Michael F. Parry, Lou Ann Bruno‐Murtha, Brian Dick
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Significant improvements in intensive care unit room cleaning can be achieved in most hospitals by using a structured approach that incorporates a simple, highly objective surface targeting method and repeated performance feedback to environmental services personnel.
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Significant improvements in intensive care unit room cleaning can be achieved in most hospitals by using a structured approach that incorporates a simple, highly objective surface targeting method and repeated performance feedback to environmental services personnel. Given the documented environmental transmission of a wide range of multidrug-resistant pathogens, our findings identify a substantial opportunity to enhance patient safety by improving the thoroughness of intensive care unit environmental hygiene.
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