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Clean Environment
- Patients colonized or infected with healthcare-associated pathogens frequently contaminate items in their immediate vicinity with pathogens that may remain viable on surfaces for days to weeks
- Healthcare workers can contaminate their hands by touching contaminated surfaces, and can transmit pathogens if hands are not cleansed appropriately
- Routine cleaning of patient rooms is often suboptimal
- Inadequate cleaning of rooms after discharging a patient with VRE or MRSA puts subsequent patients admitted to the room at risk of acquiring the organism
- Improved cleaning/disinfection of the environment can reduce the risk of patients acquiring multidrug-resistant pathogens
- Monitoring the effectiveness of hospital housekeeping procedures is needed to assure that surface contamination is reduced to a minimum
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