Improved Cleaning of Patient Rooms Using a New Targeting Method
Open Access
- 1 February 2006
- journal article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Clinical Infectious Diseases
- Vol. 42 (3) , 385-388
Abstract
We developed a new method using an invisible fluorescent marker to target standardized high-touch surfaces in hospital rooms. Evaluation of 1404 surfKeywords
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