Researchers from Chambersburg, Pa.-based Summit Health examined the effectiveness of a 175-item checklist its environmental services team used to complete terminal cleaning of hospital rooms in 2017.

The Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology provides a free, downloadable and adaptable environmental checklist using sodium hypochlorite for daily cleaning when C. diff is ...

The checklist has the user identify whether high-touch room surfaces, those sites most frequently contaminated and touched by patients and/or healthcare workers, have been cleaned, not cleaned or are ...