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Using effective hand hygiene practice to prevent and control infection.

Nursing Standard, 2020
Decontamination using hand hygiene remains one of the most important and effective methods for reducing healthcare-associated infections and cross-infection between patients.
M. Hillier
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Improved oral hygiene care attenuates the cardiovascular risk of oral health disease: a population-based study from Korea

European Heart Journal, 2018
AIMS Oral health problems such as periodontal disease, dental caries, and tooth loss have been suggested to have associations with cardiovascular disease.
Shin-Young Park, Sun-Hwa Kim, Si‐Hyuck Kang, C. Yoon, Hyo-Jung Lee, P. Yun, T. Youn, I. Chae   +7 more
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Hand Hygiene Compliance in the ICU: A Systematic Review.

Critical Care Medicine, 2019
OBJECTIVES To synthesize the literature describing compliance with World Health Organization hand hygiene guidelines in ICUs, to evaluate the quality of extant research, and to examine differences in compliance levels across geographical regions, ICU ...
K. Lambe, S. Lydon, C. Madden, Akke Vellinga, Aoife Hehir, M. Walsh, P. O’Connor   +6 more
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Sleep physiology, pathophysiology, and sleep hygiene.

Progress in cardiovascular diseases, 2023
N. Baranwal, Phoebe K Yu, Noah S. Siegel
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Improved oral hygiene care is associated with decreased risk of occurrence for atrial fibrillation and heart failure: A nationwide population-based cohort study

European Journal of Preventive Cardiology, 2019
Aims Poor oral hygiene can provoke transient bacteremia and systemic inflammation, a mediator of atrial fibrillation and heart failure. This study aims to investigate association of oral hygiene indicators with atrial fibrillation and heart failure risk ...
Yoonkyung Chang, H. Woo, J. Park, Ji Sung Lee, Tae-Jin Song   +4 more
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Hand Hygiene

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.
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PERIODONTAL DISEASE IN PREGNANCY. II. CORRELATION BETWEEN ORAL HYGIENE AND PERIODONTAL CONDTION.

Acta Odontologica Scandinavica, 1964
J. Silness, H. Löe
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Food Hygiene and General Hygiene

1995
To define the terms ‘hygiene’ and ‘food hygiene’. To provide the food premises manager with technical information on food contamination and its prevention, on general hygiene and on pest control. These provide a firm basis for management action and control discussed elsewhere in the book.
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Effectiveness of a hospital-wide programme to improve compliance with hand hygiene

The Lancet, 2000
D. Pittet, S. Hugonnet, S. Harbarth, P. Mourouga, V. Sauvan, S. Touveneau, T. Perneger   +6 more
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Hygiene for children

Nursing Management, 2009
Readers involved in education may be interested in e-Bug, a new Europe-wide teaching resource for primary and secondary school children on the use of antibiotics and various aspects of hygiene including hand washing and food preparation.
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