نتایج جستجو برای: hand infection

تعداد نتایج: 705498  

Journal: :BMC Infectious Diseases 2008
Clive B Beggs Simon J Shepherd Kevin G Kerr

BACKGROUND Hand hygiene is generally considered to be the most important measure that can be applied to prevent the spread of healthcare-associated infection (HAI). Continuous emphasis on this intervention has lead to the widespread opinion that HAI rates can be greatly reduced by increased hand hygiene compliance alone. However, this assumes that the effectiveness of hand hygiene is not constr...

Journal: :Journal of Clinical Tuberculosis and Other Mycobacterial Diseases 2020

Journal: :Infection control and hospital epidemiology 2013
Admasu Tenna Edward A Stenehjem Lindsay Margoles Ermias Kacha Henry M Blumberg Russell R Kempker

OBJECTIVE To better understand hospital infection control practices in Ethiopia. DESIGN A cross-sectional evaluation of healthcare worker (HCW) knowledge, attitudes, and practices about hand hygiene and tuberculosis (TB) infection control measures. METHODS An anonymous 76-item questionnaire was administered to HCWs at 2 university hospitals in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Knowledge items were sco...

ژورنال: بیمارستان 2015
حیرانی, علی , رواقی, حمید , عبدی, ژاله,

Abstract Background: Hand hygiene is the simplest and most effective preventive measures to reduce cross infection in hospitals. However, compliance with recommended instructions is commonly poor among healthcare workers. The present study aimed to explore potential behavioral determinants of hand hygiene compliance among healthcare workers in intensive care units. Methods and Materials: A ...

Journal: :Pediatrics 2005
Danielle M Zerr Michelle M Garrison Amanda L Allpress Joan Heath Dimitri A Christakis

BACKGROUND Hospital-associated infections are an important cause of patient morbidity and death. Little is known about the variability of infection rates and infection control practices among pediatric hospitals. METHODS This cross-sectional study was performed with the Pediatric Health Information System database, which includes demographic and diagnostic data for 35 freestanding, noncompeti...

Journal: :American journal of critical care : an official publication, American Association of Critical-Care Nurses 2015
Cherie Fox Teresa Wavra Diane Ash Drake Debbie Mulligan Yvonne Pacheco Bennett Carla Nelson Peggy Kirkwood Louise Jones Mary Kay Bader

BACKGROUND Critically ill patients are at marked risk of hospital-acquired infections, which increase patients' morbidity and mortality. Registered nurses are the main health care providers of physical care, including hygiene to reduce and prevent hospital-acquired infections, for hospitalized critically ill patients. OBJECTIVE To investigate a new patient hand hygiene protocol designed to re...

2011
SS Lessa PA Oliveira PR Daher CA Binelli AVD Silva

Introduction / objectives Healthcare-associated infections affect hundreds of thousands of patients worldwide every year. Hand washing is a basic measure to reduce infections. The aim of this study was to evaluate the adherence to hand washing opportunities among the multidisciplinary team and to search for possible causes or situations that might promote hospital infections, including cross in...

2016
Mitchell Lyons Alexis L. Parcells Mark S. Granick

Figure 1. Dorsal hand wound after debridement of infection. DESCRIPTION A 58-year-old woman on immunosuppression therapy for a kidney transplant developed a paronychia refractory to antifungal or bedside debridement therapy. The infection rapidly progressed and required extensive operative debridement. Her resulting full-thickness dorsal hand defect measured 120 cm 2 with exposed extensor tendons.

2014
Virginia Mumford David Greenfield Anne Hogden Deborah Debono Elena Gospodarevskaya Kevin Forde Johanna Westbrook Jeffrey Braithwaite

OBJECTIVES The study aims are twofold. First, to investigate the suitability of hand hygiene as an indicator of accreditation outcomes and, second, to test the hypothesis that hospitals with better accreditation outcomes achieve higher hand hygiene compliance rates. DESIGN A retrospective, longitudinal, multisite comparative survey. SETTING Acute public hospitals in New South Wales, Austral...

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