Face touching: A frequent habit that has implications for hand hygiene

Re: hand hygiene and face touching in family medicine offices: a Cincinnati Area Research and Improvement Group (CARInG) network study.

Rubber hand illusion induced by touching the face ipsilaterally to a deprived hand: evidence for plastic “somatotopic” remapping in tetraplegics

BACKGROUND Studies in animals and humans indicate that the interruption of body-brain connections following spinal cord injury (SCI) leads to plastic cerebral reorganization. OBJECTIVE To explore whether inducing the Rubber Hand Illusion (RHI) via synchronous multisensory visuo-tactile bodily stimulation may reveal any perceptual correlates of plastic remapping in SCI. METHODS In 16 paraple...

Hand hygiene and anesthesiology.

Even though hand hygiene in hospitals is currently considered as the standard of clinical care, the history behind this practice is relatively recent. The practice of hand hygiene among health care workers was first proposed by Ignaz Philipp Semmelweis (1818-1865). He was an assistant professor of Medicine, at a time when puerperal fever was a common cause of maternal mortality. While working a...

Reconsidering hand hygiene monitoring.

Hand hygiene (HH) is a fundamental component of any successful infection prevention and control program. Healthcare professionals and the public now accept the performance of HH before and after patient contact as an essential and expected behavior. Despite this broad acceptance of the importance of performing HH, compliance rates among healthcare professionals remain unacceptably low [1, 2]. S...

Hand hygiene strategies

Hand hygiene is one of the major players in preventing healthcare associated infections. However, healthcare workers compliance with hand hygiene continues to be a challenge. This article will address strategies to help improving hand hygiene compliance.