Impact of Electronic Hand Hygiene Monitoring on Hospital-Acquired Clostridium difficile Infection Rates

Impact of Electronic Hand Hygiene Monitoring on Hospital-Acquired Clostridium difficile Infection Rates

1322. Frequently Identified Infection Control Gaps Related to Hand Hygiene in Long-Term Care Facilities Kate Tyner, RN, BSN, CIC; Regina Nailon, RN, PhD; Sue Beach, BA; Margaret Drake, MT, ASCP, CIC; Teresa Fitzgerald, RN, BSN, CIC; Elizabeth Lyden, MS; Mark E. Rupp, MD; Michelle Schwedhelm, MSN, RN; Maureen Tierney, MD, MSc and Muhammad Salman Ashraf, MBBS; Nebraska Infection Control Assessmen...

Impact of sink location on hand hygiene compliance for Clostridium difficile infection.

Hand hygiene with soap and water after the care of a patient with Clostridium difficile infection is essential to reduce nosocomial transmission in an outbreak situation. Factors that may pose barriers to user completion of infection prevention measures, such as hand hygiene, are of interest. We undertook a quantitative study to evaluate the relationship between sink location and compliance wit...

Hand hygiene and Clostridium difficile infections.

the patient may become “symptomatic” and shed the spores. Patients need to be instructed to let their home care clinician know as soon as possible if they develop a watery diarrhea. C. difficile infections need to be diagnosed quickly to prevent home environmental contamination. The home care clinician can request an order for a C. difficile test (preferably a nucleic acid amplification test) i...

Impact of an Automatic Hospital Probiotic Protocol on Clostridium difficile Infection Rates and Antibiotic Usage Patterns

Effect of Leadership Commitment and Education on Antimicrobial Use and Hospital-Acquired Clostridium difficile infection rates at a Community Hospital