نتایج جستجو برای: hospital hygiene
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Background: The environmental hygiene standards are one of the factors that compliance with them can help hospitals achieve their goals. Therefore having enough information about the environmental hygiene status of the hospital is of great importance. This study evaluates the environmental hygiene indexes status in hospitals.Materials and Methods: A cross sectional - descriptive study was condu...
José Caballero Alvarado Hospital Regional Docente de Trujillo, Peru, Yashbir Dewan MIND-Max Institute of Neurosciences Dehradun, India, Hesham Fathy Elsayed, Suez Canal University Hospital, Egypt, Tamar GogichaishviliHigh Technology Medical Centre, Georgia, Sanjay Gupta Fortis Hospital Delhi, India, B J Hunt Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, UK, Pius Iribhogbe University of Benin Teach...
Objectives. As affirmed by the World Health Organization (WHO), hand hygiene is the most powerful preventive measure against healthcare-associated infections (HCAIs) and, thus, it has become one of the five key elements of patient safety program. The aim is to assess the effect of implementation of the WHO's Multimodal Hand Hygiene Improvement Strategy among healthcare workers of a tertiary tea...
BACKGROUND Hand hygiene is an important and basic practice that should be used by all healthcare staff to protect both themselves and their patients against infection. Unfortunately hand hygiene compliance remains poor. OBJECTIVE To show an improvement in hand hygiene compliance using a multifaceted approach. METHODS This was a quasiexperimental pre-post intervention study design with a num...
We assessed the effect of medical staff role models and the number of health-care worker sinks on hand-hygiene compliance before and after construction of a new hospital designed for increased access to handwashing sinks. We observed health-care worker hand hygiene in four nursing units that provided similar patient care in both the old and new hospitals: medical and surgical intensive care, he...
BACKGROUND The compliance of hospital staff with guidelines for the active surveillance of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) in Israel has not been determined. OBJECTIVES To evaluate the compliance of hospital staff with guidelines for the active surveillance of MRSA and assess its impact on the incidence of nosocomial MRSA bacteremia. METHODS We assessed compliance with MR...
conclusions the findings indicate that hand hygiene should be included in the formal curriculum, continuous education and supervision are necessary to ensure compliance. objectives the current study aimed to assess the knowledge and the attitudes of the hcps regarding hh. materials and methods questionnaires were distributed to hcps in two university affiliated hospitals. after completion, memb...
The recently published article, “Measuring hand hygiene compliance at hospital entrances” by Vaidotas et al1 was very interesting. These authors evaluated the hand hygiene compliance of patients, visitors, and employees upon entry to a hospital and demonstrated abysmally low hand hygiene rates. Using direct observation of patients, visitors, and health care workers at 2 points of entry, they re...
To the Editor—Pathogens can contaminate the environment and cause infections. In hospitals, contamination of the environment is frequent and expected. Toilets in hospitals are an area of concern. The high contamination rates of toilet tap handles or levers for manual flushing are reported in many publications. Toilet seats and handles are commonly found to be contaminated. A good “toilet design...
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