A novel hospital cleaning bundle that has been shown to improve cleaning thoroughness and reduce vancomycin-resistant enterococci infections by 37% is also cost-effective, according to newly published study results.

Previously, the Researching Effective Approaches to Cleaning in Hospitals (REACH) trial evaluated an environmental cleaning bundle for reducing rates of health care-associated infections (HAIs) in 11 Australian hospitals, explained Nicole M. White,PhD, a research fellow in the Queensland University of Technology, and colleagues.

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