title: Optimizing Health Care Environmental Hygiene.
abstract: This article presents a review and perspectives on aspects of optimizing health care environmental hygiene. The topics covered include the epidemiology of environmental surface contamination, a discussion of cleaning health care patient area surfaces, an overview of disinfecting health care surfaces, an overview of challenges in monitoring cleaning versus cleanliness, a description of an integrated approach to environmental hygiene and hand hygiene as interrelated disciplines, and an overview of the research opportunities and challenges related to health care environmental hygiene.
authors: Department of Infectious Diseases, Carney Hospital, 2100 Dorchester Avenue, Boston, MA 02124, USA. Electronic address: pcarling@comcast.net.
authors: Philip C
authors: PC
authors: Carling
mesh_terms: D004203:Disinfection; D004782:Environmental Health; D004783:Environmental Microbiology; D063373:Hand Hygiene; D006268:Health Facilities / Q000592:standards; D006801:Humans
keywords: Environmental hygiene; Hand hygiene; Hygienic practice; Optimizing disinfection cleaning