Iranian healthcare workers’ perspective on hand hygiene: A qualitative study

Hand hygiene compliance in healthcare workers.

The 'clean-your-hands' campaign has now been introduced into hospitals in England but it was initially piloted in six acute trusts. The campaign was multi-modal and aimed to improve hand hygiene compliance. This review reports the findings from one of the trusts involved in the pilot. The campaign consisted of a toolkit that included placing alcohol hand rub beside patients, along with posters ...

Surveillance of nosocomial infections: a preliminary study on hand hygiene compliance of healthcare workers.

The observance of hand hygiene compliance is important to reduce cross-infection by micro-organisms. The aim of this preliminary study was to evaluate the level of hand hygiene in healthcare workers from different departments, with particular emphasis on transient flora. The study was conducted in three departments (Surgery, Intensive Care Unit, Obstetrics and Gynecology) of a hospital in Campa...

Smartphone Overuse from Iranian University Students’ Perspective: A Qualitative Study

Improving institutional childbirth services in rural Southern Tanzania: a qualitative study of healthcare workers’ perspective

OBJECTIVE To describe health workers' perceptions of a quality improvement (QI) intervention that focused on improving institutional childbirth services in primary health facilities in Southern Tanzania. DESIGN A qualitative design was applied using in-depth interviews with health workers. SETTING This study involved the Ruangwa District Reproductive and Child Health Department, 11 dispensa...

Hand Hygiene Compliance of Healthcare Workers in a Pediatric Intensive Care Unit.

We conducted an observational study over 11 months to assess the hand-hygiene compliance of health-care workers in a Pediatric intensive care unit. The overall compliance was 80.9%, which decreased with increase in workload (79.2% vs. 82.9%). Assessment of hand hygiene compliance helps understand the gaps in practices followed by healthcare workers, and plan effective protocols.