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INFECTIOUS DISEASE CLINICS OF NORTH AMERICA
Volume 30, Issue 3, Pages 639-+Publisher
W B SAUNDERS CO-ELSEVIER INC
DOI: 10.1016/j.idc.2016.04.010
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Hygienic practice; Hand hygiene; Environmental hygiene; Optimizing disinfection cleaning
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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.
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