APSIC Guidelines for environmental cleaning and decontamination

This document is an executive summary of APSIC Guidelines for Environmental Cleaning and Decontamination. It describes best practices in routine cleaning and decontamination in healthcare facilities as well as in specific settings e.g. management of patients with isolation precautions, food preparat...

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Autores principales: Ling, Moi Lin, Apisarnthanarak, Anucha, Thu, Le Thi Anh, Villanueva, Victoria, Pandjaitan, Costy, Yusof, Mohamad Yasim
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4696151/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26719796
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13756-015-0099-7
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author Ling, Moi Lin
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description This document is an executive summary of APSIC Guidelines for Environmental Cleaning and Decontamination. It describes best practices in routine cleaning and decontamination in healthcare facilities as well as in specific settings e.g. management of patients with isolation precautions, food preparation areas, construction and renovation, and following a flood. It recommends the implementation of environmental hygiene program to keep the environment safe for patients, staff and visitors visiting a healthcare facility. Objective assessment of cleanliness and quality is an essential component of this program as a method for identifying quality improvement opportunities. Recommendations for safe handling of linen and bedding; as well as occupational health and safety issues are included in the guidelines. A training program is vital to ensure consistent adherence to best practices.
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spelling pubmed-46961512015-12-31 APSIC Guidelines for environmental cleaning and decontamination Ling, Moi Lin Apisarnthanarak, Anucha Thu, Le Thi Anh Villanueva, Victoria Pandjaitan, Costy Yusof, Mohamad Yasim Antimicrob Resist Infect Control Review This document is an executive summary of APSIC Guidelines for Environmental Cleaning and Decontamination. It describes best practices in routine cleaning and decontamination in healthcare facilities as well as in specific settings e.g. management of patients with isolation precautions, food preparation areas, construction and renovation, and following a flood. It recommends the implementation of environmental hygiene program to keep the environment safe for patients, staff and visitors visiting a healthcare facility. Objective assessment of cleanliness and quality is an essential component of this program as a method for identifying quality improvement opportunities. Recommendations for safe handling of linen and bedding; as well as occupational health and safety issues are included in the guidelines. A training program is vital to ensure consistent adherence to best practices. BioMed Central 2015-12-29 /pmc/articles/PMC4696151/ /pubmed/26719796 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13756-015-0099-7 Text en © Ling et al. 2015 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. 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.
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