Keeping Healthcare Linens Clean: Underrecognized Hazards and Critical Control Points to Avoid Contamination of Laundered Healthcare Textiles

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• Alternative Title:
  Am J Infect Control
• Personal Author:
  Glowicz, Janet ; Benowitz, Isaac ; Arduino, Matthew J. ; Li, Ruoran ; Wu, Karen ; Jordan, Alexander ; Toda, Mitsuru ; Garner, Kelley ; Gold, Jeremy A. W.
• Description:
  Outbreaks of health care-associated infections, particularly invasive mold infections, have been linked to environmental contamination of laundered health care textiles. Contamination may occur at the laundry or health care facility. This report highlights underrecognized hazards, control points, and actions that infection preventionists can take to help decrease the potential for patient exposure to contaminated health care textiles. Infection preventionists can use the checklists included in this report to assess laundry and health care facility management of laundered health care textiles.
• Keywords:
  Bedding And Linens Cross Infection Delivery Of Health Care Humans Laundry Service, Hospital Textiles
• Source:
  Am J Infect Control. 50(10):1178-1181
• Pubmed ID:
  35868458
• Pubmed Central ID:
  PMC9628009
• Document Type:
  Journal Article
• Funding:
  CC999999/ImCDC/Intramural CDC HHSUnited States/
• Volume:
  50
• Issue:
  10
• Collection(s):
  CDC Public Access
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:5209c49f151eab6749a35a77ea09e0cce4ed00cb0c2a4d3afb228cc9d84809a0
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/122052/cdc_122052_DS1.pdf
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