See Control on your unit.
A 30-minute video call with the founder. Bring your nurse manager, EVS lead or infection prevention, and we’ll walk a room from discharge to ready.
Infection prevention
“Shared equipment goes from patient to patient without a clean.”
Why it hurts
Commodes, IV poles and pumps move between rooms with no reliable record of when they were last cleaned or by whom. Contaminated shared equipment is a known path for infections to spread.
What changes with Control
- Every item shows when it was last cleaned and by whom.
- An item an inspector marks not clean, or whose clean is overdue, shows as Dirty everywhere until someone cleans it.
- A room clean also records the items that were in the room.
The research
Primary route
Contaminated shared medical equipment is a primary way infections travel between patients.
1 in 38
hospital patients has at least one healthcare-associated infection on any given day.
Related problems
Infection prevention