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The 2007-2008 Victorian Public Health Facilities External Cleaning Audit Published by the Victorian Government Department of Human Services Melbourne, Victoria © Copyright State of Victoria 2008 This publication is copyright, no part may be reproduced by any process except in accordance with the provisions of the Copyright Act 1968. This document may also be downloaded from the Department of Human Services web site at: www.dhs.vic.gov.au or www.health.vic.gov.au Authorised by the State Government of Victoria, 50 Lonsdale Street, Melbourne. Table of Contents Introduction 4 Cleaning standards in Victorian health facilities 4 Internal and external cleaning audits 4 Categories used in reporting statewide external cleaning audit results 5 Health service categories 5 De-identifying data 5 Risk categories 5 Results of the 2007-2008 external cleaning audit 6 Results for health services across Victoria 6 metropolitan health services 8 Results for rural health services 11 References 15 Appendix 1 Health service and risk categories 16 Table 1: Metropolitan Health Service Categories 16 Table 2a: Rural Health Service Categories 17 Table 2b: Small Rural Health Service (SRHS) Category 18 Appendix 2 Functional area risk categories 18 Table 3: Functional area risk categories 18 Introduction Health care associated infection remains a major patient safety issue and a growing challenge for health care systems around the ...