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Infectious Disease Clinics of North America, 2011
The toll of health care-associated infections on patients and the seeming ease of the procedure thought best able to prevent them have focused a spotlight onto hand hygiene performance. Poor performance of hand hygiene by health care workers inspires outrage in the general public.
Yves Longtin +4 more
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The toll of health care-associated infections on patients and the seeming ease of the procedure thought best able to prevent them have focused a spotlight onto hand hygiene performance. Poor performance of hand hygiene by health care workers inspires outrage in the general public.
Yves Longtin +4 more
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Abstract Improving hand hygiene is one of the most cost-effective ways hospitals can save lives. However, healthcare providers often fail to maintain high standards, resulting in unnecessary loss of life and unhelpful system responses. Strict rules and viewing hand hygiene as a simple, universal necessity limit our approach to improving ...
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Nursing Standard, 2004
This article explains the reasons associated with low compliance with hand hygiene policies. The authors suggest a range of strategies that nurses can adopt to reduce the number of avoidable infections developed by patients.
Julie, Storr, Sandra, Clayton-Kent
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This article explains the reasons associated with low compliance with hand hygiene policies. The authors suggest a range of strategies that nurses can adopt to reduce the number of avoidable infections developed by patients.
Julie, Storr, Sandra, Clayton-Kent
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Journal of Patient Safety and Infection Control, 2022
Introduction: Infection is the most common cause of hospitalisation and the second most common cause of mortality amongst haemodialysis (HD) patients, after cardiovascular disease. Hand hygiene (HH) reduces infections and enhances patient safety across all settings.
Rajesh Harsvardhan +3 more
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Introduction: Infection is the most common cause of hospitalisation and the second most common cause of mortality amongst haemodialysis (HD) patients, after cardiovascular disease. Hand hygiene (HH) reduces infections and enhances patient safety across all settings.
Rajesh Harsvardhan +3 more
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Infectious Disease Clinics of North America, 2021
Hand hygiene by health care personnel is an important measure for preventing health care-associated infections, but adherence rates and technique remain suboptimal. Alcohol-based hand rubs are the preferred method of hand hygiene in most clinical scenarios, are more effective and better tolerated than handwashing, and their use has facilitated improved
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Hand hygiene by health care personnel is an important measure for preventing health care-associated infections, but adherence rates and technique remain suboptimal. Alcohol-based hand rubs are the preferred method of hand hygiene in most clinical scenarios, are more effective and better tolerated than handwashing, and their use has facilitated improved
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