conclusions concerning hand hygiene, the residents had moderate knowledge but overall poor attitudes and practices. the present study underscores the need for further improvement in the existing training programs to address the gaps in kap regarding hand hygiene. patients and methods this cross-sectional kap study was conducted among medical residents in imam hossein hospital, iran, 2013. all m...

background and purpose: hand hygiene is a low-cost، convenient measure recommended to all health care providers to prevent nosocomial infections. health care staff commonly neglect the importance of hand washing at workplace. this study aimed to evaluate the effect of involuntary motivational factors on hand hygiene compliance byhealth care providers. methods: this descriptive analytical study ...

Introduction / objectives Healthcare workers (HCWs) hands play a crucial role in the transmission of micro organisms. Therefore, hand hygiene is acknowledged as the single most effective measure to prevent healthcare-associated infection. However many factors are interplaying making this simple, most effective preventive action not easy to be achieved, some are related to tools and others are i...

AIM After finishing medical school, interns are in many ways unprepared for handling patient care challenges independently. Recognizing that interns may benefit from a patient safety orientation, we developed an innovative curriculum to impart competencies related to their role in preventing medical errors. In the course, which runs during the first week of the intern year, we specifically addr...

Lack of hand hygiene by health-care workers is the most significant cause of health care-associated infection. This programme was designed to make health-care workers want to wash their hands, to change their knowledge regarding hand hygiene and health care-associated infection, and influence practice. Improvement between pre- and post-test scores was statistically significant. Compliance is a ...