Effectiveness of Enhanced Terminal Room Disinfection to Prevent Healthcare-associated Infections (HAIs)

Launched by DUKE UNIVERSITY · Apr 16, 2012

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ClinConnect Summary

Meticulous and consistent use of hand hygiene before and after patient care remains the cornerstone of infection prevention in all health care settings. However, clean hands are not sufficient to prevent all healthcare-associated infections (HAIs), as 1) hands of healthcare workers easily become contaminated from contact with contaminated environmental surfaces in patient rooms after appropriate hand hygiene has been performed and before direct patient care and 2) direct contact by patients with preexisting contaminated environmental surfaces in their hospital rooms can lead to colonization...

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Eligibility criteria

• Inclusion Criteria:
• • Any seed room (ie., room from which a patient with one of the target organisms has been transferred or discharged)
• Exclusion Criteria:
• • None, intervention is at level of the room, not the patient
• • Patient outcomes will be excluded if clinical cultures are obtained within 48 hours of admission to the room of interest.