Evaluating Accuracy of Sampling Strategies for Fluorescent Gel Monitoring of Patient Room Cleaning

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• Alternative Title:
  Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol
• Personal Author:
  Rock, Clare ; Small, Bryce A ; Hsu, Yea-Jen ; Gurses, Ayse P ; Xie, Anping ; Scheeler, Verna ; Cummings, Stephanie ; Trexler, Polly ; Milstone, Aaron ; Maragakis, Lisa L ; Cosgrove, Sara E
• Corporate Authors:
  CDC Prevention Epicenters Program.
• Description:
  We compared the fluorescent gel removal rate using fewer high-touch surfaces (HTSs) and rooms and determined the optimum number of HTSs and rooms needed to ensure accuracy using 2,942 HTSs in 228 rooms on 13 units. Randomly selecting 3 HTS in 2 rooms predicted the optimal removal rate.
• Subjects:
  Colony Count, Microbial Cross Infection Disinfection Environmental Microbiology Fluorescent Dyes Hospitals Housekeeping, Hospital Patients' Rooms
• Source:
  Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol. 40(7):794-797
• Pubmed ID:
  31172902
• Pubmed Central ID:
  PMC6619417
• Document Type:
  Journal Article
• Funding:
  U54 CK000447/CK/NCEZID CDC HHS/United States ; U54CK000447/ACL/ACL HHS/United States
• Place as Subject:
  Maryland
• Volume:
  40
• Issue:
  7
• Collection(s):
  CDC Public Access
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:a9e1e7c070daafedcb4ca23fe81265157ba26dd68599c18bf85f5c31cdab4888
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/79772/cdc_79772_DS1.pdf
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  [PDF - 57.88 KB ]