Flu and Hand Hygiene One hundred years ago, in 1918, an influenza pandemic broke out. The so-called Spanish flu killed 20-50 million people, many more than the First Ward War that ended the same year [1]. Could it happen again? What can we do to avoid it? What is the role of h...
Maintaining optimal hand hygiene is an important strategy for infection control and prevention. However, how to increase adherence to hand hygiene practices has been a major challenge to prevent infectious diseases and reduce hospital acqu
Testing the WHO hand hygiene self-assessment framework for usability and reliability. J Hosp Infect. 2013;83(1):30–5. PubMed CAS Google Scholar WHO Hand Hygiene Self-Assessment Framework. https://www.who.int/gpsc/country_work/hhsa_framework_October_2010.pdf Accessed 15 April 2020. Kang ...
Hand hygiene is considered as an important means of infection control. We explored whether guided hand hygiene together with transmission-limiting behaviour reduces infection episodes and lost days of work in a common work environment in an open cluster-randomized 3-arm intervention trial. Methods A ...
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Hand hygiene to reduce community transmission of influenza and acute respiratory tract infection: a systematic review. Influenza Other Respir Viruses. 2013;7:738-49.Warren-Gash C, Fragaszy E, Hayward AC. Hand hygiene to reduce community transmission of influenza and acute respiratory tract infection...
Hand hygiene checklists for hand hygiene audit in healthcare institutions. Implement WHO’s hand hygiene guidelines using a powerful hand hygiene audit tool.
Transient flora are those associated most frequently with health care–associated infections and are, therefore, the primary target of hand hygiene within the health care setting. Evolution of guidelines Hand hygiene practices in the United States have been shaped by guidelines issued by the Centers ...
Hand hygiene is the term used for hand cleansing methods and includes washing hands with water alone or water and nonantimicrobial/antimicrobial soap or hand rubbing with a waterless alcohol-based compound. From: Clinical Critical Care Medicine, 2006 ...
Poor hand hygiene behind E.coli spread28th of October 2019 People not washing their hands after going to the toilet, rather than undercooked meat, is behind the spread of a key strain of E. coli. That's according to a new study published in Lancet: Infectious Diseases. In it, a team ...