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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Hand Hygiene during the Early Neonatal Period: A Mixed-Methods Observational Study in Healthcare Facilities and Households in Rural Cambodia.
Yolisa Nalule,Helen Buxton,Alison Macintyre,Por Ir,Ponnary Pors,Channa Samol,Supheap Leang,Robert Dreibelbis +7 more
TL;DR: The findings indicate that an effective intervention in this context should be multi-modal to address the different key behaviour determinants and target a wide range of caregivers.
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Infection Prevention Performance among Hospital Staff during Vaginal Birth: Results from a Criterion-Based Audit at a Zonal Referral Hospital in Tanzania.
Lærke Vinberg Rasmussen,Enna Sengoka,Eusebius Maro,Godfrey Kisigo,Vibeke Rasch,Bjarke Lund Sørensen +5 more
TL;DR: An intervention of discussing baseline findings and a short training session and introducing alcohol-based hand rub resulted in improvements on infection prevention performance, and substandard care for infection prevention at the labour ward was identified.
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Capability, Opportunity, Motivation, and Hand Hygiene Behavior in Healthcare Workers: A Structural Equation Modeling
TL;DR: In this paper , a self-constructed questionnaire survey was conducted among healthcare workers in Chongqing, China, and the authors aimed to identify the determinants and the underlying mechanism of hand hygiene behavior based on the capability, opportunity, motivation-behavior model.
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Hand Hygiene and Personal Protective Equipment
TL;DR: This work has shown that use of clean hands for conducting delivery reduced the maternal mortality rate and was further evidenced through research that hand antisepsis reduces the transmission of pathogens and the incidence of HAIs.
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