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Comparing UV-C dosages of emitter placement strategies in a community hospital setting

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 December 2022

Cody W. Haag Open the ORCID record for Cody W. Haag [Opens in a new window] ,
George Holliday ,
Kenneth Archulet  and
Weiming Tang
Cody W. Haag*
Affiliation:
Clean Sweep Group, Los Angeles, California, United States
George Holliday
Affiliation:
Clean Sweep Group, Los Angeles, California, United States
Kenneth Archulet
Affiliation:
Providence Holy Cross Medical Center, Mission Hills, California, United States
Weiming Tang
Affiliation:
University of North Carolina Project–China, Guangzhou, China Institute for Global Health and Infectious Diseases, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States Gillings Global School of Public Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States
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Author for correspondence: Cody W. Haag, E-mail: cwh.address@gmail.com.
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Abstract

We measured the amount of UV-C light (254 nm) achieved on hospital surfaces using a modified emitter and competing placement strategies. An autonomous UV-C strategy improved exposure on surfaces that were distant, angled, or shadowed to the nonautonomous strategies, leading to significantly higher overall UV-C dosages.

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Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 44 , Issue 9 , September 2023 , pp. 1505 - 1507
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© The Author(s), 2022. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America

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