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Antimicrobial Stewardship & Healthcare Epidemiology, 2023 Objectives: Hand hygiene is widely recognized as the most effective practice for preventing healthcare-associated infections. Despite ongoing interventions and strategies implemented by the infection control committee, the compliance with and consistency
Malathi Maruthasalamoorthy +1 more
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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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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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Compliance of Healthcare Workers with Hand Hygiene Practices in the Northeast of Iran: an Overt Observation [PDF]
, 2018 Hand hygiene (HH) is one of the most effective methods to prevent transmission and spread of microorganisms from one patient to another, also, it used to reduce the spread of pathogens in clinical settings and to help control outbreaks but compliance is ...
Ghazvini, K. (Kiarash) +2 more
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Increasing the frequency of hand washing by healthcare workers does not lead to commensurate reductions in staphylococcal infection in a hospital ward [PDF]
, 2008 Hand hygiene is generally considered to be the most important measure that can be applied to prevent the spread of healthcare-associated infection (HAI).
A Kramer +29 more
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Reducing hospital associated infection : a role for social marketing [PDF]
, 2013 Purpose: Although hand hygiene is seen as the most important method to prevent the transmission of hospital associated infection in the UK, hand hygiene compliance rates appear to remain poor.
Conway, A, Langley, S
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Encouraging better hand drying hygiene [PDF]
, 2008 Electric hand driers have the potential to improve sanitation when using public toilets; if used properly, electric driers can dry hands more thoroughly than towels, and users do not come into physical contact with potentially contaminated objects.
Cunningham, Sally Jo, Will, Andrew
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Where do hands go? An audit of sequential hand-touch events on a hospital ward [PDF]
, 2012 Reservoirs of pathogens could establish themselves at forgotten sites on a ward, posing a continued risk for transmission to patients via unwashed hands.
Dancer, S.J. +3 more
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Antimicrobial Stewardship & Healthcare Epidemiology, 2023 Objectives: Good hand hygiene knowledge among healthcare workers (HCWs) is important in the fight against COVID-19. The coronavirus disease is primarily spread through droplet and contact routes, so hand hygiene and PPE are key infection control measures
Chau Chain Yan, Giselle Li
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