Hong Kong Training Portal on
Infection Control and Infectious Disease

Environmental Cleaning Practice

• Strategies to Prevent Transmission of Candida auris in Healthcare Settings (January 26, 2023)
• Evaluation of disinfection procedures in a designated hospital for COVID-19 (April 2021)
• Environmental contamination of SARS-CoV-2 in healthcare premises (August 2020)
• Beyond high-touch surfaces: Portable equipment and floors as potential sources of transmission of health care–associated pathogens. (June 2019)
• Changes in knowledge and attitudes of hospital environmental services staff: The Researching Effective Approaches to Cleaning in Hospitals (REACH) study. (September, 2018)
• Reducing health care-associated infections by implementing separated environmental cleaning management measures by using disposable wipes of four colors. (March 7, 2018)
• Knowledge, attitudes, and practices regarding environmental cleaning among environmental service workers in Chinese hospitals. (September 1, 2017)
• Researching effective approaches to cleaning in hospitals: protocol of the REACH study, a multi-site stepped-wedge randomised trial. (March 24, 2016)
• Decontamination and sterilization. (November, 2015)
• Cleaning Hospital Room Surfaces to Prevent Health Care–Associated Infections. (October 20, 2015)
• Environmental Cleaning for the Prevention of Healthcare-Associated Infections. (August, 2015)

Use of Technology

• A systematic review of the effectiveness of cohorting to reduce transmission of healthcare-associated C. difficile and multidrug-resistant organisms. (March 7, 2020)
• Efficacy of an ultraviolet-A lighting system for continuous decontamination of health care–associated pathogens on surfaces. (March, 2020)
• Use of ultraviolet-C in environmental sterilization in hospitals: A systematic review on efficacy and safety (November - December 2020)
• Evaluation of the Ultra-VTM (Ultraviolet) Decontamination System as an Adjunct to Cleaning in a District General Hospital. (December 2016)
• Modern technologies for improving cleaning and disinfection of environmental surfaces in hospitals. Antimicrobial Resistance & Infection Control. (2016)

Self-disinfection

• The efficacy of self-disinfecting bedrail covers in an intensive care unit. (April 2018)
• Reduced health care-associated infections in an acute care community hospital using a combination of self-disinfecting copper-impregnated composite hard surfaces and linens. (September 28, 2016)

Hydrogen Peroxide System

• Automatic environmental disinfection with hydrogen peroxide and silver ions versus manual environmental disinfection with sodium hypochlorite: a multicentre randomized before-and-after trial. (October, 2017)
• Effectiveness of ultraviolet devices and hydrogen peroxide systems for terminal room decontamination: Focus on clinical trials. (May, 2016)
• Terminal Decontamination of the Royal Free London’s High-Level Isolation Unit after a Case of Ebola Virus Disease Using Hydrogen Peroxide Vapor. (February 1, 2016)