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New England Journal of Medicine, 2004
One afternoon last December, I took a tour of my hospital with Deborah Yokoe, an infectious-disease specialist, and Susan Marino, a medical technologist by training. They work in our infection-control unit. Their full-time job is to stop the spread of infection in the hospital.
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One afternoon last December, I took a tour of my hospital with Deborah Yokoe, an infectious-disease specialist, and Susan Marino, a medical technologist by training. They work in our infection-control unit. Their full-time job is to stop the spread of infection in the hospital.
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2023
The chapter deals with the practice of washing hands and its importance. It is a simple process, and its importance is reinforced. The small act of handwashing is an activity that has been repeatedly shown to be very useful in controlling the spread of nosocomial infections. Eye protection and alcohol-based rubs are also discussed.
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The chapter deals with the practice of washing hands and its importance. It is a simple process, and its importance is reinforced. The small act of handwashing is an activity that has been repeatedly shown to be very useful in controlling the spread of nosocomial infections. Eye protection and alcohol-based rubs are also discussed.
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Nutrition & Food Science, 1980
A recent WHO working group concluded that efficient hand washing was more effective than health examinations of food handlers in maintaining high standards of ...
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A recent WHO working group concluded that efficient hand washing was more effective than health examinations of food handlers in maintaining high standards of ...
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Hand Washing: A Ritual Revisited
Critical Care Nursing Clinics of North America, 1995This article summarizes a critical analysis of 18 studies that examined the link between hand washing and infection. Although several factors made it difficult to evaluate the effect of hand washing, the authors conclude that (1) hand washing can add incremental value to infection-control strategies in acute care settings, (2) patient hand hygiene may ...
J L, Bryan, J, Cohran, E L, Larson
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Responsibility and hand washing behaviour
Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry, 2016Recent research suggests that compulsions persist due to a self-perpetuating mechanism of poor memory confidence and repetition. However, most of this work has examined checking compulsions and findings may not generalize well to washing compulsions. This study examined the role of responsibility in the persistence of washing behaviour.Hand washing was
Jasmine Taylor, Christine Purdon
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Hand washing for preventing diarrhoea
2008Diarrhoea is a common cause of morbidity and a leading cause of death among children aged less than five years, particularly in low- and middle-income countries. It is transmitted by ingesting contaminated food or drink, by direct person-to-person contact, or from contaminated hands.
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Interruption of shigellosis by hand washing
Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 1982High attack rates, increasing resistance to antibiotics and high mortality make shigellosis a serious problem. As Shigella is associated with poor hygiene we examined the effectiveness of a simple intervention, washing hands with soap and water, in checking the spread of the disease. The study population was comprised of confirmed cases of shigellosis.
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