title: Legionella and risk management in hospitals-A bibliographic research methodology for people responsible for built environment and facility management.
abstract: An ongoing research project investigates the roles and duties of persons responsible for the built environment with respect to risk management of water systems and Legionella prevention from a facility management's perspective. Our literature review provides an approach for selecting and analysing abstracts of initially 177 journal articles, subjected to certain topic-specific inclusion and exclusion criteria. Different decision strategies of either logic 'yes/no', Boolean operators 'OR' or 'AND' and decisions for single counts or cumulative counts of the identified three principal keywords 'Legionella', 'hospital' and 'water', were completed. A final list of ten principal reference articles from 29 journals was compiled. It suggests that the interconnected perspective of water systems, Legionella and hospitals seems to be underrepresented in the field of the built environment and facility management. The term 'stakeholder', which would refer to decision-makers, was not found more than once. Our result is a useful summary of established sources of information on environmental Legionella research. The results can be helpful for those new to the topic.
authors.affiliation: Liverpool John Moores University (LJMU), Faculty of Engineering and Technology, Department of the Built Environment, Byrom Street, Liverpool L3 3AF, United Kingdom. Electronic address: T.W.Leiblein@2014.ljmu.ac.uk.
authors.forename: Thomas W
authors.initials: TW
authors.lastname: Leiblein
authors.affiliation: Liverpool John Moores University (LJMU), Faculty of Engineering and Technology, Department of the Built Environment, Byrom Street, Liverpool L3 3AF, United Kingdom.
authors.forename: Matthew
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Tucker
authors.affiliation: Liverpool John Moores University (LJMU), Faculty of Engineering and Technology, Department of the Built Environment, Byrom Street, Liverpool L3 3AF, United Kingdom.
authors.forename: Mal
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Ashall
authors.affiliation: Leegionella Ltd., Registered Office, 5 Ribblesdale Place, Preston PR1 8BZ, United Kingdom.
authors.forename: Susanne B
authors.initials: SB
authors.lastname: Lee
authors.affiliation: Hygieneinspektionsstelle für Trinkwassersysteme, Hauptring 35, 04519 Rackwitz, Germany.
authors.forename: Carsten
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Gollnisch
authors.affiliation: Zurich University of Applied Sciences (ZHAW), Department Life Sciences and Facility Management, Institute of Facility Management, Grüental, 8820 Wädenswil, Switzerland.
authors.forename: Susanne
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Hofer
mesh_terms: D004779:Environment Design; D006740:Hospital Administrators; D006761:Hospitals; D006801:Humans; D007875:Legionella; D007876:Legionellosis / Q000517:prevention & control*; D012107:Research Design; D012308:Risk Management; D014873:Water Pollutants
chemical_list: D014873:Water Pollutants
keywords: Facility management; Hospital; Legionella; Risk management; Water