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.About:
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.read more
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Commentary: Linking Scientific Evidence and Decision Making: A Case Study of Hand Hygiene Interventions
TL;DR: Whether a hand hygiene intervention to reduce risk of nosocomial infection should be widely adopted is the case study and commentary is about cost-effectiveness models and how they inform decision making for health services.
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Experiences of hand hygiene among acute care nurses: An interpretative phenomenological analysis.
TL;DR: Researchers and infection prevention practitioners might consider soliciting greater input from nurses in planning hand hygiene improvement interventions, to encourage ownership, and emphasizing detailed cases as training content to take advantage of individuals’ sensory responses to hygiene.
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Hand hygiene compliance surveillance with time series anomaly detection
TL;DR: This study supports the use of time series anomaly detection for the routine surveillance of hand hygiene compliance data and will facilitate specific and accurate feedback, helping to improve this critical approach for improving patient safety.
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A model-based analysis: what potential could there be for a S. aureus vaccine in a hospital setting on top of other preventative measures?
TL;DR: Model-based projections indicate that even with other hygiene prevention measures in place, vaccination of patients prior to hospital admission has the potential to provide additional reduction of MRSA infection.
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TL;DR: Ajzen, 1985, 1987, this article reviewed the theory of planned behavior and some unresolved issues and concluded that the theory is well supported by empirical evidence and that intention to perform behaviors of different kinds can be predicted with high accuracy from attitudes toward the behavior, subjective norms, and perceived behavioral control; and these intentions, together with perceptions of behavioral control, account for considerable variance in actual behavior.
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Audit and feedback: effects on professional practice and healthcare outcomes
Noah Ivers,Gro Jamtvedt,Signe Flottorp,Jane M. Young,Jan Odgaard-Jensen,Simon D. French,Mary Ann O’Brien,Marit Johansen,Jeremy M. Grimshaw,Andrew D Oxman +9 more
TL;DR: The results indicated that feedback may be more effective when baseline performance is low, the source is a supervisor or colleague, it is provided more than once, and the role of context and the targeted clinical behaviour was assessed.
Chapter 8: Assessing risk of bias in included studies
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TL;DR: Results of this multistate prevalence survey of health care-associated infections indicate that public health surveillance and prevention activities should continue to address C. difficile infections.
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Guideline for Hand Hygiene in Health-Care Settings. Recommendations of the Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee and the HIPAC/SHEA/APIC/IDSA Hand Hygiene Task Force.
John M. Boyce,Didier Pittet +1 more