Environmental disinfection at hospitals as a strategy for COVID-19 spread prevention

Q4 Medicine

Taiwan Journal of Public Health Pub Date : 2020-06-01 DOI:10.6288/TJPH.202006_39(3).109038

T. Lin, Ching-Tzu Hung, Shih Cheng Tseng, Chun-Yu Lin

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Objectives: Cleanliness of hospitals' public environmental equipment or contact surfaces are frequently overlooked in the prevention of COVID-19 This paper discusses the cleaning frequency, with the purpose of preventing COVID-19 infection and controlling its dissipation during the pandemic Methods: Using the ATP cold light reaction detection method, we quantified the degree of pollution in hospitals' public environmental equipment or contact surfaces to reflect the effect of actual cleaning frequency Results: Empirical findings indicated that according to the conventional cleaning and enhanced cleaning frequency, different test results are expected as generally predicted Routine cleaning cannot meet the standard recommended in the literature (i e , <250 RLU) Conclusions: During the COVID-19 pandemic, the frequency of cleaning and disinfecting surfaces of objects frequently contacted by general public should be increased to every 2 hours Moreover, these results should be regularly monitored and reflected to the cleaning staff, so that they can support strict compliance with environmental and hand hygiene to meet infection control goals for COVID-19 © 2020 Chinese Public Health Association of Taiwan All rights reserved

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医院环境消毒作为新冠病毒传播预防策略

目的:医院公共环境设备或接触面的清洁在COVID-19的预防中经常被忽视。本文探讨了清洁频率，目的是预防COVID-19感染并控制其在大流行期间的传播。采用ATP冷光反应检测法对医院公共环境设备或接触面的污染程度进行量化，以反映实际清洗频率的影响。结果:实证研究表明，根据常规清洗和强化清洗频率，预期的检测结果与一般预测的不同。常规清洗不能达到文献推荐的标准(即<250 RLU)。COVID-19大流行期间，应将公众经常接触的物体表面的清洁和消毒频率增加到每2小时一次，并定期监测这些结果并反映给清洁人员，使他们能够支持严格遵守环境和手卫生，以达到COVID-19感染控制目标©2020中国台湾公共卫生协会版权所有

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Taiwan Journal of Public Health Medicine-Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health

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