BACKGROUND Hand hygiene is an important component in infection control to protect patient safety and reduce health care-associated infection. OBJECTIVE Our aim was to evaluate the efficacy of different social media on the promotion of a hand hygiene (HH) program. METHODS The observational study was conducted from May 5 to December 31, 2014, at a 2600-bed tertiary care hospital. A 3-minute v...

Health and Disease, Their Determining Factors. By Roger I. Lee, M.D. Boston: Little, Brown, and Co., 1917. Pp. xvi 378. Dr. Lee, who is professor of hygiene in Harvard University and visiting physician to the Massachusetts General Hospital, dedicates his book "to the anonymous graduate of Harvard whose wisdom and generosity made possible the department of hygiene in his alma mater." It is a nob...

1 Hospital for Tropical Diseases, University College London Hospital, London, United Kingdom, 2 Morriston Hospital, Swansea, Wales, United Kingdom, 3 Princess of Wales Hospital, Bridgend Hospital, Wales, United Kingdom, 4 Institute of Biodiversity, Animal Health and Comparative Medicine, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, United Kingdom, 5 Nuffield Dept of Clinical Neurology, University of Oxford,...

An anonymous, online survey of medical students, interns, and faculty at a university hospital was conducted in 2013 to examine self-reported adherence to hand hygiene opportunities. Variation in self-reported adherence ranged from frequencies of 60%-100%. Such variation suggests the need to direct education toward hand hygiene opportunities with lower reported rates of adherence, especially to...

Staff of a large hospital in Hong Kong attempted and set the first Guinness World Record for the most participants in a hand sanitizing relay in May 2014. After this event, average compliance with hand hygiene increased from 72% (95% CI, 70%-74%) in 2013 to 85% (95% CI, 83%-87%) in June-July 2014, and the conceptual understanding of good hand hygiene practices improved.

Background: Surgical site infections are commonly occurring within healthcare, especially in Africa. Good hygiene is the most effective way in which to reduce and prevent infection. However, compliance is often low or insufficient. Objective: To assess intraoperative compliance to basic hygiene in the operating theatre and the staffs’ views on patient safety and to assess whether adherence to h...

BACKGROUND Physician adherence to hand hygiene remains low in most hospitals. OBJECTIVES To identify risk factors for nonadherence and assess beliefs and perceptions associated with hand hygiene among physicians. DESIGN Cross-sectional survey of physician practices, beliefs, and attitudes toward hand hygiene. SETTING Large university hospital. PARTICIPANTS 163 physicians. MEASUREMENTS...

INTRODUCTION Based on recommendations from World Health Organization, hand hygiene is the most important way to control the hospital infections. Due to the critical role of nurses in patient care, they should have essential and updated information regarding hand hygiene. So this study aims at determining the knowledge of hand hygiene and its individual and organizational predictors among nurses...

Background: Direct observation of hand hygiene is the standard practice recommended by the World Health Organization to monitor its compliance. Objective: To evaluate the accuracy of hand hygiene observation performed by units' observers. Methods: A descriptive study was carried out in seven patient care units in a 75-bed community hospital in Qatar. Four trained nurses performed hand hygiene o...

BACKGROUND Large reductions in the incidence of antibiotic-resistant strains of Staphylococcus aureus and Clostridium difficile have been observed in response to multifaceted hospital-based interventions. Reductions in antibiotic-sensitive strains have been smaller or non-existent. It has been argued that since infection control measures, such as hand hygiene, should affect resistant and sensit...