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Analyzing the Relationship Between Hand Hygiene Beliefs and Practices and Adherence to Isolation Precautions in Dialysis Professionals [PDF]

, 2023
Objective:This study aims to evaluate the relationship between the hand hygiene beliefs and practices of dialysis professionals and their adherence to isolation precautions.Method:Healthcare professionals working in dialysis units in Turkey and Northern ...
Seda Cevheroğlu, Ayşe Didem Çakır, Funda Büyükyılmaz   +2 more
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Knowledge and practice of surgical hand hygiene of healthcare worker at University Medical Center, Ho Chi Minh City, 2022

Antimicrobial Stewardship & Healthcare Epidemiology
Introduction: 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, Pham Thi Lan, Tran Nguyen Giang Huong, Nguyen Thi Minh Khai, Le Thanh Truyen, Huynh Hoang Hai, Trinh Thi Thoa, Nguyen Vu Hoang Yen, Huynh Minh Tuan   +8 more
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Gambaran Persepsi dan Pengetahuan Kebersihan Tangan pada Pengunjung Intensive Care Unit Rumah Sakit Akademik Universitas Gadjah Mada Yogyakarta

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, Sri Setiyarini, Happy Indah Kusumawati, Eri Yanuar Akhmad Budi Sunaryo   +3 more
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Improving children’s and their visitors’ hand hygiene compliance

, 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
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Antimicrobial Resistance Following Prolonged Use of Hand Hygiene Products: A Systematic Review

Pharmacy, 2022
Background: This systematic review aimed to establish whether antimicrobial resistance (AMR) occurs following prolonged use of antimicrobial hand hygiene (HH) products, and, if so, in what magnitude.
Gouri Rani Banik, Bandar Durayb, Catherine King, Harunor Rashid   +3 more
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Hygiene: new hopes, new horizons.

, 2011
Although promotion of safe hygiene is the single most cost-effective means of preventing infectious disease, investment in hygiene is low both in the health and in the water and sanitation sectors.
Stephen Luby, Val Curtis, Wolf Schmidt, Rocio Florez, Touré, Ousmane, Curtis, Val, Luby, Stephen, Schmidt, Wolf, Florez, Rocio, Ousmane Touré, Biran, Adam, Adam Biran   +11 more
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Where do hands go? An audit of sequential hand-touch events on a hospital ward

, 2012
Reservoirs of pathogens could establish themselves at forgotten sites on a ward, posing a continued risk for transmission to patients via unwashed hands.
Robertson, Christopher, Dancer, S.J., Smith, S.J., Young, V.   +3 more
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Behaviour change for better health: nutrition, hygiene and sustainability. [PDF]

, 2013
As the global population grows there is a clear challenge to address the needs of consumers, without depleting natural resources and whilst helping to improve nutrition and hygiene to reduce the growth of noncommunicable diseases.
Elmadfa, Ibrahim, Robert J Crawford, Gert W Meijer, Cheryl Hicks, Lowe, C Fergus, Lowe, C. Fergus, Reddy, K Srinath, Myriam Sidibe, Curtis, Valerie, BV Pradeep, Pradeep, BV, Meijer, Gert W., Ibrahim Elmadfa, Marti van Liere, Sidibe, Myriam, Hicks, Cheryl, Lion, Rene, Newson, Rachel S., C Lowe, Crawford, Robert J, van Liere, Marti, Gerda IJ Feunekes, Ricardo Uauy, Meijer, Gert W, Pradeep, B. V., Rene Lion, Uauy, Ricardo, Valerie Curtis, Feunekes, Gerda IJ, K Reddy, Newson, Rachel S, Uauy Dagach-Imbarack, Ricardo, Rachel S Newson, Liere, Marti van, Reddy, K. Srinath, Crawford, Robert J., Feunekes, Gerda   +36 more
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Magnetic Textiles: A Review of Materials, Fabrication, Properties, and Applications

Advanced Materials Technologies, EarlyView.
Magnetic textiles (M‐textiles) are emerging as a programmable materials platform that merges magnetic matter with hierarchical textile structures. This article consolidates magnetic material classes, textile architectures, and fabrication and magnetization strategies, revealing structure–property–function relationships that govern magneto‐mechanical ...
Li Ke, Moses Kumi, Xiaoming Tao, Junhong Pu   +3 more
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Coming clean on hand hygiene [PDF]

, 2007
Introduction: Hand hygiene is universally recognized as one of the most effective ways to reduce the cross-transmission of hospital acquired infections. Successful strategies to improve hand hygiene compliance require a baseline knowledge of hand hygiene
Scicluna, Elizabeth, Borg, Michael Angelo, Montefort, Maxine, Chetcuti, Sarah   +3 more
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