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Interventions to improve hand hygiene compliance in patient care

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The quality of intervention studies intended to increase hand hygiene compliance remains disappointing and although multifaceted campaigns with social marketing or staff involvement appear to have an effect, there is insufficient evidence to draw a firm conclusion.
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This article is published in Journal of Hospital Infection.The article was published on 2017-09-01 and is currently open access. It has received 503 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Psychological intervention.

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How do researchers conceptualize and plan for the sustainability of their NIH R01 implementation projects

TL;DR: The results identified the need to test, consolidate, and provide guidance on how to operationalize sustainability frameworks, and to develop strategies on how funders and researchers can advance sustainability research.
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Interventions to improve healthcare workers' hand hygiene compliance: A systematic review of systematic reviews.

TL;DR: The evidence is sufficient to recommend the implementation of interventions to improve HCW HHC (except for monitoring technology), but it is insufficient to make specific recommendations regarding the content or how the content should be delivered.
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Effect of electronic real-time prompting on hand hygiene behaviors in health care workers.

TL;DR: Use of electronic monitoring with real‐time prompts of 20 seconds' duration nearly doubles handwashing activity and causes handwashing to occur sooner after entering a patient room when they are prompted.
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Intensive care physicians' and nurses' perception that hand hygiene prevents pathogen transmission: Belief strength and associations with other cognitive factors.

TL;DR: In both groups, the transmission-preventive belief was associated with high response efficacy, behavioural intention and self-efficacy, but not with self-rated knowledge, and hand hygiene interventions targeting risk reduction beliefs may promote high motivation,but not action control.
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Simulation education as a single intervention does not improve hand hygiene practices: A randomized controlled follow-up study.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors evaluated how critical nurses' knowledge of and adherence to current care hand hygiene guidelines differ between randomly allocated intervention and control groups before and after simulation education in both a simulation setting and clinical practice during a 2-year follow-up period.
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