Useful Links
A selection of interesting or useful articles related to our product ranges or infection control in general.
Hospital Curtains:
- American Journal of Infection Control: "Disposable antimicrobial and sporicidal privacy curtains: Cost benefit of hanging longer", February 2016
- Youtube video: "Curtains and the Spread of Infection", December 2014
- Journal of Hospital Infection: "Outbreak of invasive group A streptococcus infection: contaminated patient curtains and cross-infection on an ear, nose and throat ward", July 2014
- American Journal of Infection Control: "The silver lining of disposable privacy curtains in an intensive car unit", April 2014
- Nonwovens Industry: "Hospital Laundering Practices Linked to HAI's", May 2013
- American Journal of Infection Control: "Hospital privacy curtains are frequently and rapidly contaminated with potentially pathogenic bacteria", December 2012
- Physician's Weekly, "MRSA Contaminates Hospital Privacy Curtains", September 2011
- Journal of Foot and Ankle Research, "Microbiological contamination of cubicle curtains in an out-patients podiatry clinic" November 2010
- American Journal of Infection Control: "Comparison of Antimicrobial and standard privacy curtains: efficacy and cost analysis", June 2010
- Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology: "Contamination of Hospital Curtains With Healthcare‐Associated Pathogens", November 2008
- Indoor and Built Environment: "Reducing Risk of Airborne Transmitted Infection in Hospitals by Use of Hospital Curtains", June 2008
- BMC Infectious Diseases: "How long do nosocomial pathogens persist on inanimate surfaces? A systematic review", August 2006
- Journal of Hospital Infection: "Carbapenem-resistant Acinetobacter and role of curtains in an outbreak in intensive care units", February 2002
Hand & Skin Hygiene:
- Foodborne Germs and Ilnesses - Center for disease control and Prevention
- Health and Safety Executive - Occupational Skin Hazards
- WHO - how to handwash
- WHO - Hand Hygiene Self Assessment Framework 2010
- Current Microbiology: "Long-term survival of Bacillus spores in alcohol and identification of 90% ethanol as relatively more spori/bactericidal", February 2012
- Journal of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery: "Alcohol hand gel – a potential fire hazard", January 2011
- Daily Mail: "Why hand gel is a waste of money", March 2010
- Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology: "Microbiological Efficacy and Tolerability of a New Non-Alcohol-Based Hand Disinfectant" July 2009
- Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology: "Acquisition of Nosocomial Pathogens on Hands After Contact With Environmental Surfaces Near Hospitalized Patients", February 2004
Infection Control:
- World Health Organisation
- Infection Control Today
- National Institute for Health and Care Excellence
- Infection Prevention Society
- Dr. William Rutala: Disinfection and Sterilization
- American Journal of Infection Control: "Infection Control Through the Ages", July 2011
- Infection Control Today: "Are you at High Risk for Serious illness from the Flu?", October 2015
- The Telegraph: "Wet wipes could be spreading bacteria in homes and hospitals", June 2015