Disinfection

Installation of a stethoscope disinfection device improved hand hygiene compliance among health care workers at an urgent care clinic and ED, researchers reported.

Chlorine-based bleach cleaning solutions are no more effective at killing Clostridioides difficile on surfaces and hospital scrubs than water, a study found.

Biofilms that form in sink drains and plumbing can host multidrug resistant organisms, but cross-department efforts to sanitize them can limit their spread, according to a study.

Double high-level disinfection and liquid chemical sterilization of duodenoscopes both produced low rates of positives cultures, according to the results of a randomized trial.

The National Dialysis Accreditation Commission was the first dialysis accreditation organization in the United States to receive approval from CMS for deeming authority for ESRD Medicare Certification. Approved in January 2019, the National Dialysis Accreditation Commission is the only accreditation organization in the United States formed by dialysis experts and focuses exclusively on serving the dialysis community.

SAN FRANCISCO — Patients colonized with Candida auris carry a high burden of the emerging and often multidrug-resistant fungal pathogen on their skin, suggesting that the natural process of skin shedding among these patients leads to contamination of the heath care environment and contributes to transmission, according to findings presented at ASM Microbe.

Although a cleaning intervention decreased the recovery of certain bacteria on high-touch surface areas in hospital settings, it did not reduce the incidence of health care-acquired Clostridium difficile infections, according to findings presented at The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America spring conference.