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Hand hygiene practices in healthcare settings : Pratiques en matière d'hygiène des mains dans le milieux de soins

8 Nov 2012

Judy Foley, Literature Database Officer 5. |. HAND HYGIENE PRACTICES IN HEALTHCARE SETTINGS OVERVIEW The objective of this guideline is to identify and promote hand hygiene as the most effective way of preventing the transmission of healthcare-associated infection (HAI) to patients, staff and visitors in all healthcare settings. [...] Part D provides the recommendations for hand hygiene practices to prevent the cross- transmission of microorganisms in healthcare settings, including the use of alcohol-based hand rub (ABHR) at the point-of-care as the preferred method of hand hygiene in all healthcare settings unless exceptions apply (i.e., when hands are visibly soiled with organic material, if 6. |. HAND HYGIENE PRACTICES IN HE [...] Individual HCW barriers may include the misconception that hand hygiene is not necessary when gloves are worn, skepticism about the value of hand hygiene when the hands are not visibly soiled, lack of peer pressure to perform hand hygiene(29;33), lack of time to perform handwashing(20), lack of understanding of the clear association between healthcare-associated microorganisms on the hands of HCWs [...] In a specific phase of the study, the amount of solution used appeared to demonstrate that hand hygiene frequency doubled; however, the observation data showed a marked decline in hand hygiene adherence. [...] Examples of indirect monitoring include calculating the amount of hand hygiene product used(6;23;36;108;141;161;166), the number of towels used(163), the number of times a sink is used(166), or the amount of hand hygiene product required(167).
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ISBN
9781100213248
Pages
88
Published in
Canada

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