Use of UV powder for surveillance to improve environmental cleaning

L. Silvia Munoz-Price; Ella Ariza-Heredia; Stephen Adams; Micheline Olivier; Lisa Francois; Maria Socarras; Gabriel Coro; Amos Adedokun; Theodora Pappas; Madelaine Tamayo; Regina McDade; Cameron Dezfulian

doi:10.1086/658666

Use of UV powder for surveillance to improve environmental cleaning

L. Silvia Munoz-Price, Ella Ariza-Heredia, Stephen Adams, Micheline Olivier, Lisa Francois, Maria Socarras, Gabriel Coro, Amos Adedokun, Theodora Pappas, Madelaine Tamayo, Regina McDade, Cameron Dezfulian

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Commercially available UV powder was applied weekly to high-risk objects within patient rooms and inspected after 48 hours.We found a baseline cleaning rate of 41.8% that increased up to 80% (P < .001) after the institution of weekly electronic feedback (unit rates and rankings) to environmental services, hospital leadership, and unit administrators.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	283-285
Number of pages	3
Journal	Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology
Volume	32
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1086/658666
State	Published - Mar 2011
Externally published	Yes

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Microbiology (medical)
Infectious Diseases

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