London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK.
Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, South Africa.
Antimicrob Resist Infect Control. 2024 Sep 27;13(1):112. doi: 10.1186/s13756-024-01463-9.
Environmental cleaning is essential to patient and health worker safety, yet it is a substantially neglected area in terms of knowledge, practice, and capacity-building, especially in resource-limited settings. Public health advocacy, research and investment are urgently needed to develop and implement cost-effective interventions to improve environmental cleanliness and, thus, overall healthcare quality and safety. We outline here the CLEAN Group Consensus exercise yielding twelve urgent research questions, grouped into four thematic areas: standards, system strengthening, behaviour change, and innovation.
环境清洁对于患者和卫生工作者的安全至关重要，但在知识、实践和能力建设方面，尤其是在资源有限的环境中，这一领域受到了极大的忽视。迫切需要开展公共卫生宣传、研究和投资，以制定和实施具有成本效益的干预措施，改善环境清洁度，从而提高整体医疗质量和安全性。我们在这里概述了 CLEAN 小组达成共识的过程，提出了 12 个紧急研究问题，分为四个主题领域：标准、系统强化、行为改变和创新。
