Journal
AMERICAN JOURNAL OF INFECTION CONTROL
Volume 49, Issue 10, Pages 1337-1338Publisher
MOSBY-ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.ajic.2021.06.0040196-6553/
Keywords
Privacy curtains; Dry hydrogen peroxide; Privacy curtain contamination; Continuous microbial reduction; Soft surface contamination; Privacy curtain cleaning
Funding
- HCA Healthcare
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This study successfully reduced curtain contamination in different units of a tertiary care hospital using continuous dry hydrogen peroxide method. The microbial load decreased by 99.47% on Day 1 and maintained statistically significant reductions throughout the 28-day study, indicating a positive impact in reducing infection transmission risks.
Privacy curtain contamination, including with multidrug-resistant organisms, and the associated infection transmission risks have been well described; however, current approaches for addressing these risks and available guidance are limited. The present study describes the successful reduction of curtain contamination in five different units within a tertiary care hospital utilizing continuous dry hydrogen peroxide (DHP). Microbial load was reduced by 99.47 percent on Day 1 and statistically significant reductions were main-tained throughout the 28-day study. (c) 2021 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier Inc. on behalf of Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology, Inc. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/)
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