Jeremy Groves
Reducing the risk of mouth-to-mouth transmission of pathogens via re-usable, machine-read parking tickets: an observational cohort study
Groves, Jeremy; Church, Helen; Holland, Diane; Thompson, Naomi
Authors
Dr HELEN CHURCH Helen.Church@nottingham.ac.uk
Clinical Assistant Professor
Diane Holland
Naomi Thompson
Abstract
The car parks at the study hospital are accessed using re-usable, machine-read tickets. In the initial phase of this study, 598 staff members were observed entering the car park, and 21.6% of them put their parking ticket in their mouth. Ultraviolet dye was used to demonstrate card-to-card cross-contamination. Swabs of the ticket machine yielded commensal bacteria: coagulase-negative staphylococci and a Bacillus sp. After placing a poster on the ticket-reading machine highlighting the potential risk of infection, a further 1366 observations demonstrated a significant and persistent decline in the proportion of staff who put their ticket in their mouth (P<0.001).
Citation
Groves, J., Church, H., Holland, D., & Thompson, N. (2017). Reducing the risk of mouth-to-mouth transmission of pathogens via re-usable, machine-read parking tickets: an observational cohort study. Journal of Hospital Infection, 97(4), 430-432. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhin.2017.05.027
Journal Article Type | Article |
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Acceptance Date | May 31, 2017 |
Online Publication Date | Jun 8, 2017 |
Publication Date | Dec 1, 2017 |
Deposit Date | Apr 21, 2020 |
Publicly Available Date | Aug 24, 2020 |
Journal | Journal of Hospital Infection |
Print ISSN | 0195-6701 |
Electronic ISSN | 1532-2939 |
Publisher | Elsevier |
Peer Reviewed | Peer Reviewed |
Volume | 97 |
Issue | 4 |
Pages | 430-432 |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhin.2017.05.027 |
Public URL | https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/4322460 |
Publisher URL | https://www.journalofhospitalinfection.com/article/S0195-6701(17)30321-3/fulltext |
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