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Mop Bucket Liquid - Cleaning or Polluting?
"Bucket solutions become contaminated almost immediately during cleaning, and continued use of the solution transfers increasing numbers of microorganisms to each subsequent surface to be cleaned."
Source: Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and Prevention Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee (HICPAC) "Guidelines for Environmental Infection Control in Health-Care Facilities."
By Philip C. Carling, MD; Judene M. Bartley, MS, MPH, CIC
Abstract
Recent studies using direct covert observation or a fluorescent targeting method have consistently confirmed that most near patient surfaces are not being cleaned in accordance with existing hospital policies while other studies have confirmed that patients admitted to rooms previously occupied by patients with hospital pathogens have a substantially greater risk of acquiring the same pathogen than patients not occupying such rooms. These findings - in the context of recent studies that have shown disinfection cleaning can be improved on average more than 100% over baseline, and that such improvement has been associated with a decrease in environmental contamination of high touch surfaces - support the benefit of decreasing environmental contamination of such surfaces. This review clarifies the differences between measuring cleanliness versus cleaning practices; describes and analyzes conventional and enhanced monitoring programs; addresses the critical aspects of evaluating disinfection hygiene in light of guidelines and standards; analyzes current hygienic practice monitoring tools; and recommends elements that should be included in an enhanced monitoring program.
Authors
Philip C. Carling, MD
Judene M. Bartley, MS, MPH, CIC
Infectious Diseases Section, Department of Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA; and VP Epidemiology Consulting Services, Inc (ECSI), Detroit, MI.
Address correspondence to Philip C. Carling, MD, director of Hospital Epidemiology, Carney Hospital, 2100 Dorchester Ave, Boston, MA 02124.
STATEMENT OF CONFLICT OF INTEREST: Dr. Carling has been compensated as a consultant of Ecolab and Steris. He owns a patent for the florescent targeting evaluation system described in the manuscript. Ms. Bartley reports no conflicts of interest.
American Journal of Infection Control, June 2010.
PII: S0196-6553(10)00406-2
doi:10.1016/j.ajic.2010.03.004
© 2010 Published by Elsevier Inc.
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