we improve? Dr. Dror Cantrell Abstract Hand hygiene is known as one of the leading ways to reduce and prevent transmission of infectious organisms between care givers and patients. The association between hand hygiene and nosocomial infections rate is well established. Nevertheless the rate of physician's adherence to the guidelines, as of other medical staff, to the guidelines is consistent...

This mixed methods study informed the development of our web-based intervention to reduce the risk of transmission of respiratory infections. Two qualitative studies examined 28 users' responses to website materials, and elicited additional beliefs. A questionnaire study (N = 129) tested key intervention assumptions: that hand-washing is considered the most feasible preventive behaviour; behavi...

Hand washing remains an important preventative method for making the transmission of nosocomial infections redundant. Despite awareness by health workers of the practices required and of the legislation governing hand washing, the study reported here found that compliance to these procedures was quite poor. The results of two surveys distributed to health workers and direct observation by clini...