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IDCases, 2021 Hand hygiene is a practical, affordable, acceptable, reliable, and effective strategy to mitigate nosocomial infection risks in hospitals. Here we provide an image of clinical medicine that documents a potential error related to hand sanitizer dispenser ...
Donald A. Redelmeier, Deva Thiruchelvam
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BMJ, 2001 It is two years since the hand washing liaison group, a group of professionals interested in reducing the transmission of infection, drew attention in the BMJ to the importance of hand washing in reducing hospital acquired infections.1 The issue has again received prominence in Britain with the recent publication of the “Epic” evidence based guidelines
L. Teare, B Cookson, S. Stone
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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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Environmental Health Insights, 2022 Background: Poor hand hygiene is an important source of infection, but maintaining hand hygiene is the most important measure to prevent infections. Hand hygiene compliance and its associated factors are not well recognized in Ethiopia.
Muluken Tadesse +2 more
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Antimicrobial Resistance Following Prolonged Use of Hand Hygiene Products: A Systematic Review
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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Creativity in hand hygiene program [PDF]
BMC Proceedings, 2011 During SARS, high compliance in healthcare workers to hand hygiene was primarily driven by fear.However, the post-SARS period confirmed that this practice was not sustainable.At the Singapore General Hospital, a 1600-bedded acute tertiary care hospital, the hand hygiene program was revised in late 2006 following Singapore's signing of the pledge to the
Ling ML, How KB, Tan KY, Lee LC
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BMC Proceedings, 2011 Professionals promoting hand hygiene (HH) with multimodal strategies featuring the introduction of alcohol-based handrub (ABHR) are confronted by a common set of impeding opinions regarding the indications, safety and efficacy of ABHR. Some of these could be referred to as HH myths.
Andrew J. Stewardson +4 more
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Hand hygiene compliance in India [PDF]
BMC Proceedings, 2011 Healthcare workers (HCWs) hands are the most common vehicle for the transmission of healthcare-associated pathogens. Evidence-based guidelines for healthcare workers’ hand hygiene practices exist, but compliance with these is internationally low.
Sureshkumar D +3 more
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