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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 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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Journal of the Korean Medical Association, 2018 According to many experts, humanity is well on its way to losing the effects of antibiotics. Without effective antibiotics, many infectious diseases will be deadly again in the future. From this point of view, the importance of preventing the transmission of infections and their pathogens must be constantly recalled.
Presterl, Elisabeth +4 more
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Comparison of the Degree of Bacterial Removal by Hand Hygiene Products
치위생과학회지, 2022 Background: The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic increased awareness regarding the importance of hand hygiene in infection prevention. Although social distancing and vaccination are the strongest ways to prevent infection, personal hand hygiene is
Young Sun Hwang
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Impact of hand hygiene knowledge on the hand hygiene compliance
Medicinski Glasnik, 2019 <p><strong>Aim<br /></strong> Hand hygiene practice is still burdened by inadequate compliance, whether in the professional sphere by health professionals or in the non-professional sphere by lay population.
Martin Novák +4 more
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Journal of Education and Health Promotion, 2020 BACKGROUND: Washing of hands and maintenance of appropriate hand hygiene plays a significant role in preventing the spread of many communicable diseases.
Shubhi Goel +1 more
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International Journal of Medicine and Health Development, 2023 Background: Healthcare-associated infections and antimicrobial resistance are both largely prevented through hand hygiene. There are still gaps in hand hygiene knowledge and routine use of alcohol-based hand rub among healthcare workers. Objectives: This
Ifeoma J Ogugua +9 more
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Hand hygiene habit and pathogens found in medical students
Revista de la Facultad de Medicina Humana, 2021 The objective was to know the hand hygiene habits of medical students; as well as the bacterial population resident in the palm of the hands. An observational, descriptive cross-sectional study was carried out.
Nicanor Domínguez Navarrete +4 more
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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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Jurnal Keperawatan Klinis dan Komunitas (Clinical and Community Nursing Journal), 2021 Background: Intensive Care Unit (ICU) patients are immunosuppressive and susceptible to infection. Their visit toward ICU may increase pathogen contamination and infection transmission probability.
Sulistina Alifah Purbaningrum +3 more
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