Alcohol Hand Rub Significantly Reduces Overall Bacterial Bioburden on Stethoscopes in a Real-World Clinical Setting
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Alcohol-based hand rub and nosocomial scabies.
minders remains a major challenge to individualized feedback strategies. More intensive efforts, beyond poster campaigns, may be necessary to encourage patients to remind HCWs. Prior patient feedback strategies used one-on-one patient information sessions; however, inpatient turnover imposes continual resource demands on that approach. Clinical leaders are needed to openly invite their teams to...
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BACKGROUND Providing alcohol-based hand rub (ABHR) at the point of care is a key success factor in enabling health care providers to achieve optimal hand hygiene practices. There are few tools available for health care organizations to assess the number of points of care, estimate the number of hand hygiene indications at each point of care, and estimate the anticipated volume of ABHR required ...
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OBJECTIVE To assess the incidence of late onset (> 72 hours) infection and necrotising enterocolitis (NEC) in very low birthweight (VLBW) infants in two 36 month periods using two hand hygiene protocols: conventional handwashing (HW; first 36 month period); an alcohol hand rub and gloves technique (HR; second 36 month period). METHOD VLBW infants admitted to the neonatal intensive care unit d...
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Results The cameras were positioned above the users with a clear view of their hands. For the single camera system background modelling and skin detection were combined to find the hands and arms. The solution was effective but was sensitive to the intensity and colour of light in the workspace. The stereo camera system measured the distances to objects in front of the camera and was combined w...
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Proper hand hygiene is acknowledged as the most critical element of an adequate infection control program in the oral healthcare setting. However, adherence to proper hand hygiene protocols is often lacking. Poor compliance with hand hygiene protocols has been attributed to such factors as lack of time, hand irritation, hand dryness, forgetfulness, skepticism over importance, understaffing, per...
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عنوان ژورنال: Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology
سال: 2020
ISSN: 0899-823X,1559-6834
DOI: 10.1017/ice.2020.620