The recent ongoing coronavirus pandemic highlights the importance of hand hygiene practices in our daily lives, with governments and worldwide health authorities promoting good practices. More than one million cases hospital-acquired infections occur Europe annually. Hand compliance may reduce risk transmission by reducing number as well healthcare expenditures. In this paper, World Health Orga...

Hand hygiene has been recognized as the most important means of preventing the transmission of infection, and great emphasis has been placed on ways to improve hand hygiene compliance by health care workers (HCWs). Despite increasing evidence that patients' flora and the hospital environment are the primary source of many infections, little effort has been directed toward involving patients in ...

BACKGROUND Physician adherence to hand hygiene remains low in most hospitals. OBJECTIVES To identify risk factors for nonadherence and assess beliefs and perceptions associated with hand hygiene among physicians. DESIGN Cross-sectional survey of physician practices, beliefs, and attitudes toward hand hygiene. SETTING Large university hospital. PARTICIPANTS 163 physicians. MEASUREMENTS...