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Hand Hygiene, an Update

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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Guideline for Hand Hygiene in Health-Care Settings. Recommendations of the Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee and the HIPAC/SHEA/APIC/IDSA Hand Hygiene Task Force.

American Journal of Infection Control, 2002
The Guideline for Hand Hygiene in Health-Care Settings provides health-care workers (HCWs) with a review of data regarding handwashing and hand antisepsis in health-care settings. In addition, it provides specific recommendations to promote improved hand-
J. Boyce, D. Pittet
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Hand hygiene technique

Nursing Standard, 2008
Hand hygiene is an essential component of effective infection prevention programmes. Good technique, ensuring that all surfaces of the hands receive contact with the decontaminating agent, has been accepted for many years and is acknowledged in current guidelines.
Dinah Gould, Nicholas Drey
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Hand Hygiene and Anesthesiology

International Anesthesiology Clinics, 2013
Even though hand hygiene in hospitals is currently considered as the standard of clinical care, the history behind this practice is relatively recent. The practice of hand hygiene among health care workers was first proposed by Ignaz Philipp Semmelweis (1818-1865).
L. Silvia Munoz-Price, David J. Birnbach
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A Hands-on Approach to Hand Hygiene

American Journal of Infection Control, 2014
ISSUE: Catheter-associated urinary tract infections (CAUTI), the most common healthcare-associated infection, lead to substantial morbidity and increased healthcare costs. In 2011, an 810-bed academic hospital, set a 2-year quality goal of 5% CAUTI reduction each year from the previous year.
Mary Ellen Bennett, Stephanie Rothstein
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Skin reactions related to hand hygiene and selection of hand hygiene products

American Journal of Infection Control, 2006
In October 2004, The World Health Organization (WHO) launched the World Alliance for Patient Safety. Within the alliance, the first priority of the Global Patient Safety Challenge is to reduce health care-associated infection. A key action within the challenge is to promote hand hygiene in health care globally as well as at the country level through ...
Larson, Elaine   +5 more
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Update on hand hygiene

American Journal of Infection Control, 2013
Recent developments related to hand hygiene include new test methods for evaluating hand hygiene products, improvements in alcohol-based hand rubs, novel methods of hand antisepsis, and new strategies and technologies for monitoring hand hygiene practices among health care personnel.
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Effect of hand lotion on the effectiveness of hygienic hand antisepsis: Implications for practicing hand hygiene

American Journal of Infection Control, 2017
Skin protection products should be used after washing hands with soap, during breaks, after work, and during leisure time. Aside from their beneficial effects, skin care products may also interact with alcohol-based hand disinfectants by reducing their efficacy.
Ojan Assadian   +6 more
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Hand Hygiene Among Health Care Workers During COVID-19 Pandemic: Challenges and Recommendations

Dermatitis, 2020
In-hospital transmission is one of the main routes of the 2019 novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) spreading among health care workers (HCWs) who are the frontline fighters.
F. Araghi   +4 more
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Hygienic Hand Disinfection

Infection Control, 1984
AbstractThe purpose of hygienic hand disinfection is to render hands safe after contact with pathogens. Comparing effects of disinfection procedures on infection ratios is too difficult for routine purposes but the degerming efficacy may be determined in laboratory tests with volunteers.
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