Factors Associated with Environmental Service Worker Cleaning Practices in Healthcare Settings: A Systematic Review of the Literature

Investing in Our First Line of Defense: Environmental Services Workers

(2020) Kevin Tyan et al.   ANNALS OF INTERNAL MEDICINE

An environmental cleaning bundle and health-care-associated infections in hospitals (REACH): a multicentre, randomised trial

(2019) Brett G Mitchell et al.   LANCET INFECTIOUS DISEASES

Changes in knowledge and attitudes of hospital environmental services staff: The Researching Effective Approaches to Cleaning in Hospitals (REACH) study

(2018) Brett G. Mitchell et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF INFECTION CONTROL

Barriers and perceptions of environmental cleaning: An environmental services perspective

(2018) Laura Pedersen et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF INFECTION CONTROL

Keeping hospitals clean and safe without breaking the bank; summary of the Healthcare Cleaning Forum 2018

(2018) Alexandra Peters et al.   Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control

A Multicenter Randomized Trial to Determine the Effect of an Environmental Disinfection Intervention on the Incidence of Healthcare-Associated Clostridium difficile Infection

(2017) Amy J. Ray et al.   INFECTION CONTROL AND HOSPITAL EPIDEMIOLOGY

Challenges and Strategies for Prevention of Multidrug-Resistant Organism Transmission in Nursing Homes

(2017) Ghinwa Dumyati et al.   Current Infectious Disease Reports

Cleaning the grey zones of hospitals: A prospective, crossover, interventional study

(2016) Makeda Semret et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF INFECTION CONTROL

Understanding Barriers to Optimal Cleaning and Disinfection in Hospitals: A Knowledge, Attitudes, and Practices Survey of Environmental Services Workers

(2016) Daniel A. Bernstein et al.   INFECTION CONTROL AND HOSPITAL EPIDEMIOLOGY

Clostridium difficile infection incidence: impact of audit and feedback programme to improve room cleaning

(2016) A. Smith et al.   JOURNAL OF HOSPITAL INFECTION

Transmission of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in long-term care facilities and their related healthcare networks

(2016) Ewan M. Harrison et al.   Genome Medicine

Controlling Hospital-Acquired Infection: Focus on the Role of the Environment and New Technologies for Decontamination

(2014) Stephanie J. Dancer   CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY REVIEWS

Methods for assessing the adequacy of practice and improving room disinfection

(2013) Philip Carling   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF INFECTION CONTROL

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

An Environmental Disinfection Odyssey: Evaluation of Sequential Interventions to Improve Disinfection of Clostridium difficile Isolation Rooms

(2013) Brett Sitzlar et al.   INFECTION CONTROL AND HOSPITAL EPIDEMIOLOGY

Health Care–Associated Infections

(2013) Eyal Zimlichman et al.   JAMA Internal Medicine

A survey of environmental service workers' knowledge and opinions regarding environmental cleaning

(2012) Andrea Jennings et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF INFECTION CONTROL

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

Use of audit and feedback with fluorescent targeting to achieve rapid improvements in room cleaning in the intensive care unit and ward settings

(2011) Kelsey Ragan et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF INFECTION CONTROL

Environmental Cleaning Intervention and Risk of Acquiring Multidrug-Resistant Organisms From Prior Room Occupants

(2011) Rupak Datta et al.   ARCHIVES OF INTERNAL MEDICINE

The deleterious consequences of privatization and outsourcing for hospital support work: The experiences of contracted-out hospital cleaners and dietary aids in Vancouver, Canada

(2011) Daniyal M. Zuberi et al.   SOCIAL SCIENCE & MEDICINE

Who is really caring for your environment of care? Developing standardized cleaning procedures and effective monitoring techniques

(2010) Diane G. Dumigan et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF INFECTION CONTROL

Improving environmental hygiene in 27 intensive care units to decrease multidrug-resistant bacterial transmission*

(2010) Philip C. Carling et al.   CRITICAL CARE MEDICINE

Norovirus in the hospital setting: virus introduction and spread within the hospital environment

(2010) S. Morter et al.   JOURNAL OF HOSPITAL INFECTION

Finding a benchmark for monitoring hospital cleanliness

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

Measuring the effect of enhanced cleaning in a UK hospital: a prospective cross-over study

(2009) Stephanie J Dancer et al.   BMC Medicine

Monitoring the Effectiveness of Hospital Cleaning Practices by Use of an Adenosine Triphosphate Bioluminescence Assay

(2009) John M. Boyce 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

Interventional evaluation of environmental contamination by vancomycin-resistant enterococci: failure of personnel, product, or procedure?

(2008) B. Hota et al.   JOURNAL OF HOSPITAL INFECTION

Moral Distress Reconsidered

(2008) Joan McCarthy et al.   NURSING ETHICS