Abstract
 Hospital is a gathering place for all kinds of diseases, both infectious and non-communicable. In terms origin or infection, it can come from the community (community acquired infection) hospital environment (Hospital which was previously known as nosocomial infection. The purpose this study to analyze influence individual, organizational behavioral factors on nurse compliance in...

The goal of our work is the design and implementation of a virtual agents based interactive simulation for teaching and training health care workers in the proper procedures for hand hygiene. The health care trainee in the simulation plays the role of a health care inspector in a virtual hospital that resembles a real hospital. The interactive training simulation features a virtual instructor w...

AIM To describe self-reported practices and assess knowledge and attitudes regarding hand hygiene among healthcare workers in a rural Indian teaching hospital. SETTING A rural teaching hospital and its associated medical and nursing colleges in the district of Ujjain, India. METHOD The study population consisted of physicians, nurses, teaching staff, clinical instructors and nursing student...

Results Voluntary participation and commitment of hospitals was excellent, with participation rates of 95% for acute care hospitals, 65% for chronic care hospitals and 60% for psychiatric hospitals, for all campaigns. Each of the three national hand hygiene campaigns resulted in a significant increase in hand hygiene compliance among HCWs and a higher consumption of ABHR. Hand hygiene complianc...

ciated with removal of 59% of unnecessary catheters. As did a previous study suggesting that physicians were unaware of their patients having urinary catheters, we found that reminders to physicians with less training who were directly involved in patient care enhanced the effectiveness the reminder systems. We also identified 2 potentially modifiable gaps in knowledge of inappropriate urinary ...

OBJECTIVES To investigate whether the regular use of alcohol hand gel was having a detrimental effect on hands of healthcare professionals and, if so, to what extent. The study also aimed to establish a link between individuals who felt their hands were suffering from persistent exposure to the gel and those who actively avoided using the gel. DESIGN A short descriptive questionnaire was dist...

Hand hygiene is one of the most effective measures against the spread of infectious diseases. Compliance with hand hygiene among healthcare workers and visitors to the hospital varies but can be quite poor in some instances [1]. Hand hygiene upon first entering a health care institution has not been studied in detail and the few studies addressing it have indicated that compliance is quite poor...

Factors other than antimicrobial activity of soaps and antiseptic agents used for hand hygiene by health personnel play a role in compliance with recommendations. Hand hygiene products differ considerably in acceptance by hospital personnel. If switching from a nonmedicated soap to an antiseptic agent or increased use of an existing antiseptic agent for hand hygiene prevented a few more infecti...

Hand hygiene occurs at the intersection of habit and culture. Psychological and social principles, including operant conditioning and peer pressure of conforming social norms, facilitate behavior change. Participatory leadership and level hierarchies are needed for sustainable patient safety culture. Application of these principles progressively and significantly improved hand hygiene compared ...