abstract background: it is proved that surgical hand disinfectant contains alcohol, and has favorable properties such as strong and rapid antibacterial effect, ease of application, and suitable effect on skin. therefore, nowadays use of them has been gradually replacing traditional surgical hand scrub with antibacterial soap. hence, several domestic and imported products are available to the he...

BACKGROUND Hand hygiene is a major means for preventing healthcare-associated infections. One critical point in understanding poor compliance is the lack of relevant markers used to monitor practices systematically. METHODS This study analysed hand hygiene compliance and associated factors with a radio-frequency-identification-based real-time continuous automated monitoring system in an infec...

conclusions according to the findings of the current study, training programs are recommended to be planned with the focus on improving hwc. background hand hygiene is closely associated with infection control practices. improvement of hand hygiene, aimed to minimize nosocomial infection, is a high priority of the world health organization (who). objectives the current study aimed to explore ha...

Thorough hand disinfection in hospitals is essential to prevent nosocomial infections. Health care workers are trained and instructed on when and how to use hand sanitizers during apprenticeship training and continuing education, but up to now there is no automatic system to give immediate feedback about the quality of a hand disinfection in daily clinical routine. We propose a method that is c...

Following hand disinfection, 40 anaesthetists working in the operating room (OR) were asked to use their personal in-hospital mobile phone for a short phone call. After use of the cell phone, bacterial contamination of the physicians' hands was found in 38/40 physicians (4/40 with human pathogen bacteria). After repeating the same investigation with fixed phones in the OR anteroom 33/40 physici...

BACKGROUND Despite the increasing promotion of alcohol-based hand rubs and the worldwide use of ethanol-based hand rubs in hospitals only few studies have specifically addressed the issue of ethanol absorption when repeatedly applied to human skin. The aim of this study was to assess if ethanol absorption occurs during hygienic and surgical hand disinfection using three different alcohol-based ...

of drying the hands was 23 s, hence longer than the duration of the hand rub. To shorten the standardized technique of hand rubbing from 6 to 5 or 4 steps and decreasing the number of repetitions from 5 to 3 times per step had only small effects, but with the 4-step sequence the bacterial reduction was less pronounced such that this procedure cannot be considered equivalent to the standard. Con...

A large proportion of hospital-related infections are acquired and spread due to the direct contacts between patients and healthcare workers. Accordingly, proper infection prevention measures, and especially hand hygiene, are key to limit the spread of infections in nosocomial settings. However, healthcare workers frequently experience difficulties in complying strictly to hand disinfection pro...