Sodium Hypochlorite

Curtis J. Donskey, MD, and colleagues at the Louis Stokes Cleveland VA Medical Center had a novel idea to prevent some infections in their facility.

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.