- Title
- Multimodal environmental cleaning strategies to prevent healthcare-associated infections
- Creator
- Browne, Katrina; Mitchell, Brett G.
- Relation
- Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control Vol. 12, no. 83
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13756-023-01274-4
- Publisher
- BioMed Central
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2023
- Description
- Infection transmission in healthcare is multifaceted and by in large involves the complex interplay between a pathogen, a host and their environment. To prevent transmission, infection prevention strategies must also consider these complexities and incorporate targeted interventions aimed at all possible transmission pathways. One strategy to prevent and control infection is environmental cleaning. There are many aspects to an environmental cleaning strategy. We believe the key to successfully reducing the risk of healthcare-associated infections through the environment, is to design and implement a multimodal intervention. This paper aims to provide an overview of important considerations for designing a meaningful and sustainable environmental program for healthcare facilities.
- Subject
- healthcare-associated infection; infection prevention; infection control; cleaning and disinfection; cost effectiveness; cross-infection
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1501290
- Identifier
- uon:55116
- Identifier
- ISSN:2047-2994
- Rights
- © The Author(s) 2023. This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data.
- Language
- eng
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