Colin D. Furness

TL;DR: The purpose of this review is to explore whether this classic sociological work, following its thirtieth birthday, might have new relevance to students and practitioners of both traditional and emerging information professions, given their rapidly changing work environments.

TL;DR: Hand hygiene event rates were approximately threefold higher in hallways within eyesight of an auditor compared with when no auditor was visible and the increase occurred after the auditors’ arrival, consistent with the existence of a Hawthorne effect localised to areas where the auditor is visible and calls into question the accuracy of publicly reported hospital hand hygiene compliance rates.

TL;DR: It is suggested that organizations might do well to recognize that, in the hustle and bustle to implement strategies and systems, information values and information culture will always have a defining influence on how people share and use information.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a system and method for disease mapping and infection control. But the system is not suitable for the management of large-scale outbreaks, such as pandemic outbreaks.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors conducted a systematic review to determine the efficacy of patient hand hygiene interventions in reducing HCAIs and improving patient hygiene rates compared to usual care, using electronic databases and grey literature search to August 2014.