A Novel Technique for Identifying Opportunities to Improve Environmental Hygiene in the Operating Room

Environmental cleaning and disinfection is essential for optimizing safe patient care in the OR; however, perioperative staff members have not had an easy‐to‐use, objective method for determining whether high‐touch, potentially contaminated surfaces have been cleaned during terminal room cleaning. To address this issue, members of the Healthcare Environmental Hygiene Study Group used a transparent, removable, environmentally stable disclosing...