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Non-Manual Room Disinfection Techniques for Infection Prevention in Healthcare Facilities: A Review of the Clinical Effectiveness, Cost-Effectiveness, and Guidelines [Internet]. Ottawa (ON): Canadian Agency for Drugs and Technologies in Health; 2015 May 27.

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Non-Manual Room Disinfection Techniques for Infection Prevention in Healthcare Facilities: A Review of the Clinical Effectiveness, Cost-Effectiveness, and Guidelines [Internet].

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There is some evidence that non-manual room disinfection methods based on hydrogen peroxide and UV light are effective at preventing or reducing infection in health care facilities. However, many of the included studies in this report stated that further studies are warranted. Non-manual room disinfection technologies differ significantly even when the base intervention (hydrogen peroxide or UV light) is the same. For this reason, the suitability of one technology over the other has to be determined based on several factors including the intended application, labour cost and availability, and practicality of implementation to fit the nature of operations at health care facilities. Cost-effectiveness models based on the conditions at the local health care facility may be preferable given the various options for acquisition of non-manual room disinfection technologies and the associated cost differentials.

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