Focus: Infection Control

Cleaning strategies to reduce hospital-acquired infections

Enhanced disinfection techniques can decrease the spread of pathogens

Enhanced disinfection techniques can reduce hospital-acquired infections, according to an article on the Psychiatry Advisor website.

A study evaluated four strategies for enhanced terminal room disinfection:

• Quaternary ammonium disinfectant (except C difficile, for which bleach was used)

• UV (ultraviolet): Reference + UV (except C difficile, for which bleach + UV were used)

• Bleach

• Bleach + UV

Pathogens was reduced by 30 percent when UV was added. There was no statistically significant difference in either the bleach alone or in the bleach with UV group.

Read the article.

February 13, 2017

Topic Area: Infection Control

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