BACKGROUND Health care associated infections are more predominant in developing countries where Hand hygiene compliance is associated with so many factors. However, these factors have not been studied so far in the study area. This study sought to determine Hand hygiene compliance and associated factors among health care providers. METHODS Institution based cross-sectional study was conducted...

INTRODUCTION Ebola virus disease (EVD) is a highly contagious viral infection that requires a high risk perception and practice of good hand hygiene by regular hand washing or use of hand sanitizers for infection control at all time. The declaration of Nigeria as an Ebola-free country by the World Health Organization on the 20th of October, 2014 has prompted many Nigerians, including healthcare...

Guinea pig model Diffuse peritonitis Peritoneal lavage Lavasept® Polihexanide Tarivid® Ofloxacin High performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) Intolerability to Lavasept® peritoneal lavage in experimentally induced peritonitis in the guinea pig Axel Berg1, Ojan Assadian2, Peter Rudolph3, Ralf G. Mundkowski4, Jan Janda5, Axel Kramer3* 1 MVZ / Surgery, Frankfurt (Oder) 2 Clinical Institute for Hy...

Background The modalities of HIV, HBV, HCV healthcare-associated infections and the underlying social and cultural logics contributing to this transmission are not precisely known, since hospital hygiene has mainly been studied from a biological point of view until now. However, hospital hygiene is shaped by norms and social-cultural representations, which increase or limit the transmission of ...

INTRODUCTION Hand hygiene is an important component of infection control efforts. Our primary and secondary goals were to determine the reported rates of hand washing and stethoscope cleaning in emergency medical services (EMS) workers, respectively. METHODS We designed a survey about hand hygiene practices. The survey was distributed to various national EMS organizations through e-mail. Desc...

BACKGROUND While communicable diseases are the leading causes of morbidity and mortality in Malawi, the contribution of nosocomial or hospital-acquired infections (HAIs) is unknown but could be substantial. The single most important method of preventing nosocomial infections is hand hygiene. We report a study which was conducted in 2011 to investigate adherence to hand hygiene protocols by clin...

The primary hypothesis of this study was that a lecture on basic hygiene routines could be associated with an increase in the use of disinfectant for hand hygiene. A secondary hypothesis was that the lecture could positively affect the staff's knowledge of and attitudes toward basic hygiene routines.A quasi-experimental design including one ward of the department of orthopedics in a Swedish uni...

OBJECTIVE To determine the compliance of hand hygiene among the trainee physicians of a tertiary care teaching hospital; and to identify physicians' opinion regarding various obstacles in adhering to the hand hygiene principles. METHODS Cross-sectional survey was conducted among the Interns (House Officers) and Post Graduate trainee physicians of a tertiary care teaching hospital in a resourc...

PURPOSE Although hand hygiene is seen as the most important method to prevent the transmission of hospital associated infection in the UK, hand hygiene compliance rates appear to remain poor. This research aims to assess the degree to which social marketing methodology can be adopted by a particular organisation to promote hand hygiene compliance. DESIGN/METHODOLOGY/APPROACH The research desi...