Improving Healthcare Environmental Cleaning and Disinfection Current and Evolving Issues

Beyond the Hawthorne Effect: Reduction of Clostridium difficile Environmental Contamination through Active Intervention to Improve Cleaning Practices

(2013) Dubert M. Guerrero et al.   INFECTION CONTROL AND HOSPITAL EPIDEMIOLOGY

Editorial Commentary: Deconstructing the Veterans Affairs MRSA Prevention Bundle

(2012) E. N. Perencevich   CLINICAL INFECTIOUS DISEASES

Decreasing Operating Room Environmental Pathogen Contamination through Improved Cleaning Practice

(2012) L. Silvia Munoz-Price et al.   INFECTION CONTROL AND HOSPITAL EPIDEMIOLOGY

The Time Spent Cleaning a Hospital Room Does Not Correlate with the Thoroughness of Cleaning

(2012) Mark E. Rupp et al.   INFECTION CONTROL AND HOSPITAL EPIDEMIOLOGY

The uses and abuses of rapid bioluminescence-based ATP assays

(2012) G. Shama et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF HYGIENE AND ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH

Significant reduction in vancomycin-resistant enterococcus colonization and bacteraemia after introduction of a bleach-based cleaning–disinfection programme

(2012) E.A. Grabsch et al.   JOURNAL OF HOSPITAL INFECTION

Estimating bacterial surface contamination by means of ATP determinations: 20 pence short of a pound

(2012) D.J. Malik et al.   JOURNAL OF HOSPITAL INFECTION

Why doesn't hand hygiene work better?

(2012) Kent A Sepkowitz   LANCET INFECTIOUS DISEASES

Rapid Whole-Genome Sequencing for Investigation of a Neonatal MRSA Outbreak

(2012) Claudio U. Köser et al.   NEW ENGLAND JOURNAL OF MEDICINE

Attitudes and beliefs, not just knowledge, influence the effectiveness of environmental cleaning by environmental service workers

(2011) Anne G. Matlow et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF INFECTION CONTROL

Environmental cleaning and disinfection: Only one piece of the critical care infection control puzzle*

(2011) Mark E. Rupp   CRITICAL CARE MEDICINE

Hospital cleaning in the 21st century

(2011) S. J. Dancer   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY & INFECTIOUS DISEASES

Comparison of Fluorescent Marker Systems with 2 Quantitative Methods of Assessing Terminal Cleaning Practices

(2011) John M. Boyce et al.   INFECTION CONTROL AND HOSPITAL EPIDEMIOLOGY

Evaluation of Hospital Room Assignment and Acquisition of Clostridium difficile Infection

(2011) Megan K. Shaughnessy et al.   INFECTION CONTROL AND HOSPITAL EPIDEMIOLOGY

A Targeted Strategy to Wipe Out Clostridium difficile

(2011) Robert Orenstein et al.   INFECTION CONTROL AND HOSPITAL EPIDEMIOLOGY

The Role Played by Contaminated Surfaces in the Transmission of Nosocomial Pathogens

(2011) Jonathan A. Otter et al.   INFECTION CONTROL AND HOSPITAL EPIDEMIOLOGY

Evaluating hygienic cleaning in health care settings: What you do not know can harm your patients

(2010) Philip C. Carling et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF INFECTION CONTROL

The Need for Additional Investigation of Room Decontamination Processes

(2010) John Leander Po et al.   INFECTION CONTROL AND HOSPITAL EPIDEMIOLOGY

Control of Transmission of Infection in Hospitals Requires More than Clean Hands

(2010) Stephanie J. Dancer   INFECTION CONTROL AND HOSPITAL EPIDEMIOLOGY

Finding a benchmark for monitoring hospital cleanliness

(2010) D. Mulvey et al.   JOURNAL OF HOSPITAL INFECTION

Dangerous cows: An analysis of disinfection cleaning of computer keyboards on wheels

(2009) John Leander Po et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF INFECTION CONTROL

What is on that keyboard? Detecting hidden environmental reservoirs of Clostridium difficile during an outbreak associated with North American pulsed-field gel electrophoresis type 1 strains

(2009) Donald M. Dumford et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF INFECTION CONTROL

Skin and Environmental Contamination with Methicillin‐ResistantStaphylococcus aureusamong Carriers Identified Clinically Versus through Active Surveillance

(2009) Shelley Chang et al.   CLINICAL INFECTIOUS DISEASES

Acquisition and Cross-Transmission of Staphylococcus aureus in European Intensive Care Units

(2009) Alexander L. A. Bloemendaal et al.   INFECTION CONTROL AND HOSPITAL EPIDEMIOLOGY

Variations in Hospital Daily Cleaning Practices

(2009) John M. Boyce et al.   INFECTION CONTROL AND HOSPITAL EPIDEMIOLOGY

Improving Cleaning of the Environment Surrounding Patients in 36 Acute Care Hospitals

(2008) Philip C. Carling et al.   INFECTION CONTROL AND HOSPITAL EPIDEMIOLOGY

Impact of an Environmental Cleaning Intervention on the Presence of Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus and Vancomycin-Resistant Enterococci on Surfaces in Intensive Care Unit Rooms

(2008) Eric R. Goodman et al.   INFECTION CONTROL AND HOSPITAL EPIDEMIOLOGY

Executive Summary: A Compendium of Strategies to Prevent Healthcare-Associated Infections in Acute Care Hospitals

(2008) Deborah S. Yokoe et al.   INFECTION CONTROL AND HOSPITAL EPIDEMIOLOGY

Risk of Hand or Glove Contamination After Contact With Patients Colonized With Vancomycin-Resistant Enterococcus or the Colonized Patients' Environment

(2007) Mary K. Hayden et al.   INFECTION CONTROL AND HOSPITAL EPIDEMIOLOGY

Importance of the environment in meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus acquisition: the case for hospital cleaning

(2007) Stephanie J Dancer   LANCET INFECTIOUS DISEASES