I often wonder how much “cleanliness theatre” there is, like security theatre - there solely to provide an illusion. Stainless steel door plates and surfaces -look- clean to the eye and modern, whereas brass often looks a bit shabby and worn - the point being that brass autosterilizes itself of most bacteria. The same is true of hand sanitizer - yes, hand hygiene is important, but if you apply sterilizer and go back to thumbing that 2007 ER waiting room copy of People (omg Bennifer back together!) you are not coming out ahead.
I recently saw an EMR pitched with the option of a Patient Information Kiosk - have your patients check in through a terminal in the waiting room. Touchscreen and everything! Wow so modern. What outbreak?
