منابع مشابه
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.
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Affiliations: 1. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia; 2. Westchester Medical Center and New York Medical College Department of Medicine, Valhalla, New York; 3. Gillings School of Global Public Health, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina; 4. The Joint Commission, Oakbrook Terrace, Illinois; 5. Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, ...
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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...
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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...
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Results Hand hygiene compliance is usually better after patient contact than before, despite a lack of evidence to suggest this is an effective means to prevent transmission of pathogens. Blood levels of ethanol and acetone after even supra-normal exposure are undetectable or insignificant. Appropriately formulated ABHR products are less likely to result in dermatitis than washing with soap and...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Community Hospital Internal Medicine Perspectives
سال: 2011
ISSN: 2000-9666
DOI: 10.3402/jchimp.v1i2.7200