Day 2, April 15 - Posters
Viable bacterial presence on environmental surfaces of a newly constructed children’s outpatient clinic at Erlanger Hospital
Start Date
15-4-2020 1:00 PM
End Date
15-4-2020 3:00 PM
Publisher
University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
Place of Publication
Chattanooga (Tenn.)
Abstract
We studied waiting areas and patient rooms in the Kennedy Outpatient Center for children. Floors (72 to 87%) were contaminated with viable bacteria. These results suggest the need for improved floor cleaning to reduce contamination of patient rooms.
Date
April 2020
Document Type
posters
Language
English
Rights
http://rightsstatement.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
Recommended Citation
Spratt, Henry, "Viable bacterial presence on environmental surfaces of a newly constructed children’s outpatient clinic at Erlanger Hospital". ReSEARCH Dialogues Conference proceedings. https://scholar.utc.edu/research-dialogues/2020/day2_posters/93.
Viable bacterial presence on environmental surfaces of a newly constructed children’s outpatient clinic at Erlanger Hospital
We studied waiting areas and patient rooms in the Kennedy Outpatient Center for children. Floors (72 to 87%) were contaminated with viable bacteria. These results suggest the need for improved floor cleaning to reduce contamination of patient rooms.