1365Identifying Opportunities to Improve Environmental Hygiene in Multiple Healthcare Settings

hand hygiene in healthcare settings: clean hands save lives

Hand hygiene practices in healthcare: measure and improve.

Last year marked the 150th anniversary of the publication of Ignaz Semmelweis’ landmark monograph on hand hygiene – at the time hand disinfection with chlorinated lime solution – as a means to prevent nosocomial infections [1]. All the necessary scientific evidence that improved hand hygiene practices in healthcare indeed reduce healthcare-associated infections and patient-to-patient transmissi...

Effectiveness of a training programme to improve hand hygiene compliance in primary healthcare

BACKGROUND Hand hygiene is the most effective measure for preventing infections related to healthcare, and its impact on the reduction of these infections is estimated at 50%. Non-compliance has been highlighted in several studies in hospitals, although none have been carried out in primary healthcare. MAIN OBJECTIVE To evaluated the effect of a "Hand Hygiene for the reduction of healthcare-a...

Providing healthcare to evacuees in the wake of a natural disaster: opportunities to improve disaster planning.

BACKGROUND The impending landfall of Hurricane Katrina on the Mississippi Gulf Coast resulted in large numbers of evacuees into the Jackson, Mississippi area. Many evacuees with chronic medical problems had been directed to the Mississippi Coliseum in the downtown area near the University of Mississippi Medical Center. As the storm passed through Jackson, serious damage occurred to the municipa...

1514Targeting Behaviors Using Transtheoretical Model To Improve Hand Hygiene Adherence Among Intensive Care Unit Healthcare Workers

Background. To evaluate the behavioral-based interventions to improve hand hygiene (HH) among Thai intensive care units (ICUs) healthcare workers (HCW). Methods. A quasi-experimental study was performed at Thammasat University Hospital. Baseline HCW demographics, self-reported stage of HH behavior within the Trantheoretical Model (TTM), and observed HH adherence were examined. Pre-intervention ...