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through interdisciplinary input, the right products, the use of checklists and
educational programs, and exploring the latest technology.
Your infection prevention and environmental services personnel can lead the
way in establishing effective surface cleaning and disinfection protocols and
enforcing compliance with
practices. The Centers for
Disease Control and
Prevention, the Association
for Professionals in
Infection Control and
Epidemiology, AORN and
other specialty organizations
offer guidelines and recom-
mendations on the subject.
While a demonstrated
reduction in SSIs and HAIs
is the goal to aim for, deter-
mining the quality of surface
cleaning to benchmark your
staff's disinfection efforts
along the way can prove
challenging, says Ms. Havill.
Visual inspection is easy
enough, but it's unreliable.
"Surfaces that appear clean
might not actually be clean
when assessed with objec-
tive measures such as
colony counts or ATP," she
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