Journal•ISSN: 0195-6701
Journal of Hospital Infection
Elsevier BV
About: Journal of Hospital Infection is an academic journal published by Elsevier BV. The journal publishes majorly in the area(s): Medicine & Intensive care. It has an ISSN identifier of 0195-6701. Over the lifetime, 8577 publications have been published receiving 249219 citations. The journal is also known as: The Journal of hospital infection.
Topics: Medicine, Intensive care, Infection control, Health care, Outbreak
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TL;DR: Human coronaviruses can persist on inanimate surfaces like metal, glass or plastic for up to 9 days, but can be efficiently inactivated by surface disinfection procedures with 62–71% ethanol, 0.5% hydrogen peroxide or 0.1% sodium hypochlorite within 1 minute.
2,859 citations
TL;DR: These guidelines (epic3) provide comprehensive recommendations for preventing HCAI in hospital and other acute care settings based on the best currently available evidence, and the synopses of evidence underpinning the guideline recommendations have been updated.
1,381 citations
1,069 citations
TL;DR: Factors influencing hand hygiene compliance, the impact of hand hygiene promotion on healthcare-associated pathogen cross-transmission and infection rates, and challenging issues related to the universal adoption of alcohol-based hand rub as a critical system change are reviewed.
823 citations
TL;DR: The purpose of this review is to assess the likelihood of widespread resistance to silver and the potential for silver to induce cross-resistance to antibiotics, in light of its increasing usage within the healthcare setting.
778 citations