Patient Safety Tool: Clostridium Difficile Environmental Cleaning Checklist

The Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology provides a free, downloadable and adaptable environmental checklist using sodium hypochlorite for daily cleaning when C. diff is involved.

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APIC also offers a free, downloadable environmental checklist using sodium hypochlorite for daily cleaning when the presence of C. diff is not known or suspected.

The checklists are on p. 35-36 of APIC’s 2008 “Guide to the Elimination of Clostridium difficile in Healthcare Settings.”

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