Capturing portable medical equipment disinfection data via an automated novel disinfection tracking system

Portable Medical Equipment (PME) such as workstations-on-wheels (WOWs) and vital signs machines (VMs) have been linked to healthcare-associated infections. Routine visual monitoring of PME disinfection is difficult. An automated Disinfection Tracking System (DTS) was used to record and report the number of disinfection events of PME in a hospital setting.The study was conducted in 2 acute-care units for 25-days to determine the pattern of...