When kids head to a doctor’s office, it’s usually not fun, especially if they’re sick. Often doctors will help ease the pain with some waiting room toys. But with the onset of flu season ...

Background: Toys in pediatric office waiting rooms may be fomites ... In addition, 15 samples were obtained from the sick waiting room before and after cleaning. Polymerase chain reaction was ...

Usually the first thing kids do at the doctor’s office is head for the toys, but that could be a thing of the past. More and more practices are removing books and toys from waiting rooms.

I asked Dr. Ben Kruskal ... be factors specific to that office — like the size of the waiting room, the air circulation, the practice of cleaning the toys — that skewed it.

Although our doctor's office has a section of ... Cross contamination could occur from toys, books, and computers, among other fomites in the waiting room or in the clinic examination rooms.

Fifteen samples were obtained from toys and books in the sick waiting room of the office just before the scheduled lunch hour cleaning by a nurse (the nurse did not know that the toys were being ...