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/PRNewswire/ AseptiScope®, Inc., a privately funded San Diego, California-based clinical innovation company, today announced the commencement of a 90-day.
A new study in the journal
PLOS ONE entitled A quasi-experimental study on stethoscopes contamination with multidrug-resistant bacteria: Its role as a vehicle of transmission found low levels of stethoscope hygiene education and practice among clinicians and no significant reduction in levels of stethoscope contamination, including nosocomial pathogens and multidrug-resistant (MDR) bacteria, despite educational intervention (consisting of flyers and 2 separate one-hour slide presentations).
In this study involving 98 clinicians in a university-affiliated teaching hospital in Seoul, South Korea, self-reported stethoscope cleaning with alcohol swabs/gel or soap and water, increased after educational interventions for every patient from 10% to 20% and from 21% to 34% for at least once per week, while those reporting cleaning on occasion fell from 51% to 40.8% and not at all from 18% to 4.1%. Despite the overall self-reported increase in hygiene practices, contaminatio