title: Methods for assessing the adequacy of practice and improving room disinfection.
abstract: The value of objectively monitoring and improving environmental cleaning in health care settings is becoming increasingly recognized as an important component of interventions to mitigate the transmission of health care-associated pathogens. Whereas the 2010 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention tool kit "Options for Evaluating Environmental Cleaning" provides detailed guidance related to implementing such programs, there is a need to clearly understand the value and limitations of various environmental cleaning monitoring approaches to ensure the favorable impact of such activities.
authors.affiliation: Department of Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, USA. Philip.Carling.MD@Steward.org
authors.forename: Philip
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Carling
mesh_terms: D003428:Cross Infection / Q000517:prevention & control*; D004203:Disinfection / Q000379:methods* / Q000592:standards; D004783:Environmental Microbiology; D004866:Equipment Contamination / Q000517:prevention & control*; D006797:Housekeeping, Hospital / Q000379:methods* / Q000592:standards; D006801:Humans; D010362:Patients' Rooms / Q000592:standards*; D017410:Practice Guidelines as Topic; D011786:Quality Control