Research priorities to strengthen environmental cleaning in healthcare facilities: the CLEAN Group Consensus
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AbstractEnvironmental cleaning is essential to patient and health worker safety, yet it is a substantially neglected area in terms of knowledge, practice, and capacity-building, especially in resource-limited settings. Public health advocacy, research and investment are urgently needed to develop and implement cost-effective interventions to improve environmental cleanliness and, thus, overall healthcare quality and safety. We outline here the CLEAN Group Consensus exercise yielding twelve urgent research questions, grouped into four thematic areas: standards, system strengthening, behaviour change, and innovation.
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill United States
- EMORY UNIVERSITY NON PROFIT CORP United States
- United Nations Children's Fund United States
- UNIVERSIDADE DE SAO PAULO Brazil
- University of Queensland Australia
Medical Microbiology - Radboud University Medical Center, Cross Infection, Infection Control, Consensus, Research, Comment, Infectious and parasitic diseases, RC109-216, Housekeeping, Hospital, Disinfection, Healthcare facilities, Healthcare Environmental Hygiene and Patient Safety ; Disinfection/methods [MeSH] ; Research priorities ; Consensus [MeSH] ; Comment [Healthcare facilities ; Health Facilities [MeSH] ; Cross Infection/prevention ; Housekeeping, Hospital/standards [MeSH] ; Infection Control/methods [MeSH] ; Humans [MeSH] ; Environment cleaning ; Research [MeSH] ; Clean Hospitals], Humans, Health Facilities, Environment cleaning, Research priorities
Medical Microbiology - Radboud University Medical Center, Cross Infection, Infection Control, Consensus, Research, Comment, Infectious and parasitic diseases, RC109-216, Housekeeping, Hospital, Disinfection, Healthcare facilities, Healthcare Environmental Hygiene and Patient Safety ; Disinfection/methods [MeSH] ; Research priorities ; Consensus [MeSH] ; Comment [Healthcare facilities ; Health Facilities [MeSH] ; Cross Infection/prevention ; Housekeeping, Hospital/standards [MeSH] ; Infection Control/methods [MeSH] ; Humans [MeSH] ; Environment cleaning ; Research [MeSH] ; Clean Hospitals], Humans, Health Facilities, Environment cleaning, Research priorities
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