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Level of Hand Hygiene Compliance and Its Associated Factors Among Health Care Workers at Eka Kotebe General Hospital, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

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, Alebachew Shimelash, Eniyew Tegegne   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Helping hands: a cluster randomised trial to evaluate the effectiveness of two different strategies for promoting hand hygiene in hospital nurses [PDF]

, 2011
Background: hand hygiene prescriptions are the most important measure in the prevention of hospital-acquired infections. Yet, compliance rates are generally below 50% of all opportunities for hand hygiene.
Eddy Adang, Anita Huis, Grol, R.P.T.M., Schoonhoven Lisette, Marlies Hulscher, Lisette Schoonhoven, Theo van Achterberg, Schoonhoven, L., Schoonhoven, Lisette, Grol Richard, Adang Eddy, Richard Grol, Huis, A.M.P., George Borm, Hulscher Marlies, Achterberg, T. van, van Achterberg, Theo, van Achterberg Theo, Borm, G.F., Grol, Richard, Hulscher, M.E.J.L., Borm George, Huis, Anita, Borm, George, Adang, Eddy, Huis Anita, Adang, E.M.M., Hulscher, Marlies   +27 more
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Characterization of Hand Hygiene Techniques Among Intensive Care Nurses: A Descriptive Study [PDF]

, 2021
OBJECTIVE: Although a plethora of hand hygiene guidance and policies exist for healthcare workers, a number of barriers exist that can cause a lack of adherence.
Reyes, Ashley L
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Improving children’s and their visitors’ hand hygiene compliance [PDF]

, 2020
Background: Numerous interventions have tried to improve healthcare workers' hand hygiene compliance, however little attention has been paid to children's and their visitors’ compliance.Aim: To increase children’s and visitors’ compliance using ...
Nerlich, Brigitte, Vaughan, Natalie, Lary, Dina, Segal, Joel, Randle, Jacqueline, Calvert, Aaron, Hardie, Kim   +6 more
core   +1 more source

SG-APSIC1120: Hand hygiene knowledge: Its effect on hand hygiene adherence rate during the COVID-19 pandemic in the primary care setting

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
doaj   +1 more source

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
doaj   +1 more source

Evaluating the efficacy of handwashing demonstration on hand hygiene among school students – An interventional study

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, Byalakere Rudraiah Chandrashekar   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

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, Jozef Breznický, Jana Kompaníková, Nora Malinovská, Henrieta Hudečková   +4 more
openaire   +2 more sources

Knowledge of hand hygiene and use of alcohol-based hand rub among interns in a Nigerian Tertiary Health Facility

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, Kingsley I Achigbu, Denning M Chukwumam, Chioma A Ejim, Eunice O Enabulele, Chioma F Friday-Edeh, Hope O Nwoga, Ernest O Nwazor, Johnson S Mafuka, Somtochukwu R Akunne   +9 more
doaj   +1 more source

Increasing the frequency of hand washing by healthcare workers does not lead to commensurate reductions in staphylococcal infection in a hospital ward [PDF]

, 2008
YesHand hygiene is generally considered to be the most important measure that can be applied to prevent the spread of healthcare-associated infection (HAI). Continuous emphasis on this intervention has lead to the widespread opinion that HAI rates can be
Clive B Beggs, Shepherd, Simon J., Shepherd, SJ, Kerr Kevin G, Simon J Shepherd, Beggs, Clive B., Beggs, CB, Kerr, KG, Kevin G Kerr, Kerr, Kevin G., Beggs Clive B, Shepherd Simon J   +11 more
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