Erratum and republication – S2k Guideline: Hygienic requirements for patient beds, bed linen, bed accessories and personal protection when handling beds

 Axel Kramer ¹
Julia Seifert ²
Bernd Gruber ³
Marianne Abele-Horn ⁴
Mardjan Arvand ⁵
Alexander Blacky ⁶
Michael Buerke ⁷
Iris Chaberny ⁸
Maria Deja ⁹
Steffen Engelhart ¹⁰
Dieter Eschberger ¹¹
Anja Gerhardts ¹²
Achim Hedtmann ¹³
Julia Heider ¹⁴
Christian Jäkel ¹⁵
Peter Kalbe ¹⁶
Horst Luckhaupt ¹⁷
Wolfgang Müller ¹⁸
Alexander Novotny ¹⁹
Cihan Papan ²⁰
Hansjürgen Piechota ²¹
Frank-Albert Pitten ¹
Veronika Reinecke ²²
Simone Scheithauer ^8,23
Dieter Schilling ²⁴
Walter Schulz-Schaeffer ²⁵
Ulrich Sunderdiek <sup>26

1</sup> German Society for General and Hospital Hygiene, Berlin, Germany
² German Trauma Society, Berlin, Germany
³ German Nursing Council, Berlin, Germany
⁴ Paul Ehrlich Society for Infection Therapy, Munich, Germany
⁵ Robert Koch Institute, Department Infectious Diseases, Unit Hospital Hygiene, Infection Prevention and Control, Berlin, Germany
⁶ Austrian Society for Hospital Hygiene, Vienna, Austria
⁷ German Cardiac Society, Düsseldorf, Germany
⁸ German Society for Hygiene and Microbiology, Münster, Germany
⁹ German Society of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, Munich, Germany
¹⁰ Society of Hygiene, Environmental and Public Health Sciences, Müllheim, Germany
¹¹ Vienna Regional Office of the Austrian Workers’ Compensation Insurance, Vienna, Austria
¹² Hohenstein Institute for Textile Innovation gGmbH (HIT), Bönningheim, Germany
¹³ Professional Association of Orthopaedic and Trauma Specialists (BVOU), German Society for Orthopaedics and Trauma, Berlin, Germany
¹⁴ German Society for Oral, Maxillofacial and Facial Surgery, Hofheim am Taunus, Germany
¹⁵ Dr. Jäkel, Medical Law, Pharmaceuticals Law, Medical Devices Law, Luebben, Germany
¹⁶ Professional Association of German Surgery, Berlin, Germany
¹⁷ German Society of Oto-Rhino-Laryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, Bonn, Germany
¹⁸ Former Head of the Office of the Association of the Scientific Medical Societies in Germany
¹⁹ German Society for Surgery, Berlin, Germany
²⁰ German Society for Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Berlin, Germany
²¹ German Society for Urology, Düsseldorf, Germany
²² German-speaking Interest Group of Experts for Infection Prevention and Consultants for Hospital Hygiene, Zurich, Switzerland
²³ Department of Infection Control and Infectious Diseases, University Medical Center Göttingen (UMG), Georg-August University Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany
²⁴ German Society for Digestive and Metabolic Diseases, Berlin, Germany
²⁵ Department of Neuropathology, Medical Faculty of the Saarland University, Homburg/Saar, Germany
²⁶ German X-ray Society and German Society for Interventional Radiology and Minimally Invasive Therapy, Berlin, Germany

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