نتایج جستجو برای: hospital hygiene
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Objective. To assess and improve student adherence to hand hygiene indications using radio frequency identification (RFID) enabled hand hygiene stations and performance report cards. Design. Students volunteered to wear RFID-enabled hospital employee nametags to monitor their adherence to hand-hygiene indications. After training in World Health Organization (WHO) hand hygiene methods and indica...
INTRODUCTION Hand hygiene is an effective, low-cost intervention that prevents the spread of multidrug-resistant bacteria. Despite mandatory education and reminders, compliance by physicians in our hospital remained stubbornly low. Our objective was to study whether surveillance by our unit coordinator (secretary) paired with regular feedback to chiefs of service would increase physician hand h...
Diseases often spread in hospitals because health care professionals fail to wash their hands. Research suggests that to increase health and safety behaviors, it is important to highlight the personal consequences for the actor. However, because people (and health care professionals in particular) tend to be overconfident about personal immunity, the most effective messages about hand hygiene m...
BACKGROUND The use of gloves for every patient contact (ie, universal gloving) has been suggested as an infection prevention adjunct and alternative to contact precautions. However, gloves may carry organisms unless they are changed properly. In addition, hand hygiene is required before donning and after removing gloves, and there are scarce data regarding glove changing and hand hygiene in a u...
The hand hygiene knowledge and competence of staff in an adult Intensive Care Unit (ICU) was measured at a 450 bed Australian metropolitan teaching hospital. Staff working in or entering the ICU to perform patient care over a two-month period were asked to complete a questionnaire that examined their knowledge on current hand hygiene policy and procedures. Hand hygiene practice was also assesse...
P. GRIMA*, S. CATALDINI**, D. TOMMASI***, M. GUIDO****, G. GABUTTI****, AND THE COLLABORATIVE GROUP FOR THE STUDY OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES IN SALENTO(*) * Infectious Diseases Dept., Hospital «S. Caterina Novella», Galatina, AUSL LE/1 ** Infectious Diseases Dept., Active Service Unit, P.O. Gallipoli, AUSL LE/2 *** Infectious Diseases Dept., Hospital «V. Fazzi», Lecce **** Laboratory of Hygiene, De...
BACKGROUND Measurement and monitoring of health care workers' hand hygiene compliance (i.e., actions/opportunities) is a key component of strategies to eliminate hospital-acquired infections. Little data exist on the expected number of hand hygiene opportunities (HHOs) in various hospital settings, however. The purpose of this study was to estimate HHOs in 2 types of hospitals--large teaching a...
<p class="paragraph">Hand hygiene is very important for health workers to reduce infection rates in services area. Five Moments Hand Hygiene one of strategy keep safe from infections. Knowledge and attitudes by nurses about hand can influence nurse behavior have an impact improving patient reducing the spread infection. To describe level knowledge applying a Private Hospital Wester part I...
OBJECTIVE Occurrences of healthcare-associated infections are associated with substantial direct and indirect costs. Improvement in hand hygiene among acute care nurses has potential to reduce incidence of healthcare-associated infections. Findings from reviews of intervention research have not conclusively identified components that are more or less efficient or effective. Much prior qualitati...
Rates of hospital-acquired infections, such as methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), are increasingly used as quality indicators for hospital hygiene. Alternatively, these rates may vary between hospitals, because hospitals differ in admission and referral of potentially colonized patients. We assessed if different referral patterns between hospitals in health care networks can in...
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