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Journal of Community Hospital Internal Medicine Perspectives, 2011 Hand hygiene is one of the major players in preventing healthcare associated infections. However, healthcare workers compliance with hand hygiene continues to be a challenge. This article will address strategies to help improving hand hygiene compliance.
Eskandar Alex Yazaji
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Overestimation of Personal Hand Hygiene Performance and Barriers to Hand Hygiene among Healthcare Providers [PDF]
Antimicrobial Stewardship & Healthcare EpidemiologyIntroduction: Hand hygiene (HH) performance in our facility declined during the COVID-19 pandemic and failed to return to baseline despite a widespread education campaign and increased HH rounding.
Sonia Srikanth +8 more
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Antimicrobial Resistance Following Prolonged Use of Hand Hygiene Products: A Systematic Review [PDF]
Pharmacy, 2022 Background: This systematic review aimed to establish whether antimicrobial resistance (AMR) occurs following prolonged use of antimicrobial hand hygiene (HH) products, and, if so, in what magnitude.
Gouri Rani Banik +3 more
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Knowledge, attitude, and practice of hand hygiene among clinical nurses in a tertiary hospital in China: a cross-sectional perspective [PDF]
BMC Medical EducationBackground Effective hand hygiene is a fundamental aspect of ensuring clinical nursing safety and quality. This study aims to investigate the knowledge, attitudes, and practices (KAP) of hand hygiene among clinical nurses, thereby providing evidence ...
Yuehong Hu +4 more
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Knowledge and practice of surgical hand hygiene of healthcare worker at University Medical Center, Ho Chi Minh City, 2022 [PDF]
Antimicrobial Stewardship & Healthcare EpidemiologyIntroduction: Nowadays, surgical site infection is one of the four common types of healthcare-associated infections. There are many preventive measures applied and surgical hand hygiene (SHH) is the most effective and the simplest measure.
Truong Thi Le Huyen +8 more
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Prevalence and factors associated with poor hand hygiene practices among adult carers of children under five in Mbale district Uganda [PDF]
Scientific ReportsProper hand hygiene reduces the risk of hygiene-related diseases among children under five years of age; however, poor hand hygiene practices remain common in many communities.
Jascenti Nawanga +9 more
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Effect of hand hygiene program among school children in Bangladesh. [PDF]
BMC Public HealthAkhter F, Khatun S, Biswas HB.
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British Dental Journal, 2010 As part of Save Lives: Clean Your Hands, the World Health Organization (WHO) First Global Patient Safety Challenge team has launched a hand hygiene self-assessment framework.
G, Palmer, C, Plumb
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Hand Hygiene and Hand Sanitizers
EDIS, 2019 Hand hygiene is one of the primary methods used to reduce the fecal-oral transmission of infectious agents. However, conflicting hand hygiene recommendations for different settings are causing confusion among the general public as to what is the best ...
Amy Simonne
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Student's Journal of Health Research Africa, 2023 Background. Purpose: The purpose was to assess the knowledge, attitude, and practices of health workers toward hand washing at Lacor Health Center III Opit.
Adam Johnson Wamala
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