A systematic review of hand-hygiene and environmental-disinfection
Background Helping adults and children develop better hygiene habits is an important public health focus. As infection causing bacteria can live on one's body and in the surrounding environment, more effective interventions should simultaneously encourage personal-hygiene (e.g. hand-hygiene) and environmental-disinfecting (e.g. cleaning surfaces). To inform the development of a future multi ...
The effectiveness of hand hygiene interventions for preventing
Evidence of hand hygiene as the building block for infection prevention and control: an extract from the systematic literature reviews undertaken as the background for the WHO guidelines on core components of infection prevention and control programmes at the national and acute health care facility level.
Hand Hygiene
Hand hygiene practices are paramount in reducing cross-transmission of microorganisms, hospital-acquired infections and the risk of occupational exposure to infectious diseases. ... Respiratory viral infection in early life and development of asthma in childhood: A protocol for systematic review and meta-analysis. Medicine (Baltimore). 2019 May ...
A systematic review of hand hygiene improvement strategies: a
Hand hygiene improvement strategy. A strategy consist of a set of one or more techniques ( e.g., education, feedback, goal setting), intended to change specific determinants ( e.g., education to increase knowledge, feedback to raise awareness, guided practice to enhance self-efficacy) of HH behaviour.
Guidelines and evidence
A literature review of MDROs and the relationship with hand hygiene - summary pdf, 316kb; Moment 1 Global Moment 1 Global Observation Survey pdf, 88kb; Systematic review of automated electronic systems for hand hygiene monitoring (preliminary results) pdf, 168kb; WHO Hand Hygiene Self-Assessment Framework Global Survey Report 2011pdf, 413kb
Hand hygiene in health care: 20 years of ongoing advances and
Hand hygiene with alcohol-based hand rub is the most effective preventive strategy to reduce health-care-associated infections. Over the past two decades, various interventions have been introduced and studied to improve hand hygiene compliance among health-care workers. ... Conducting a literature review on hand hygiene. in: Pittet D Boyce JM ...
The importance of hand washing
Of particular interest were sections on critically ill patients, neonates and pediatrics, long-term care facilities, and resource-poor settings. The text concludes with information about doing a literature review and with discussions of the role of hand hygiene in meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, Clostridium difficile, and norovirus ...
Conducting a Literature Review on Hand Hygiene
Hand hygiene is an expanding discipline of infection prevention and control and hospital epidemiology. Hand hygiene, hand disinfection, and hand sanitizers are the main MeSH vocabulary to index the hand hygiene literature. In the MeSH Tree structure, hand hygiene is a broader term than hand disinfection and more specific than Communicable ...
Hygiene and health: systematic review of handwashing practices ...
Objective: To estimate the global prevalence of handwashing with soap and derive a pooled estimate of the effect of hygiene on diarrhoeal diseases, based on a systematic search of the literature. Methods: Studies with data on observed rates of handwashing with soap published between 1990 and August 2013 were identified from a systematic search of PubMed, Embase and ISI Web of Knowledge.
Hand Sanitizer an Alternative to Hand Washing—A Review of Literature
A review of research works states that limited literature is available in relation to hand sanitizers and washing hands. As COVID-19 has rapidly spread worldwide, panic buying of sanitizers over the coronavirus pandemic has led to stocking up of sanitizer sprays, gels, and so on, without knowing the effect of the sanitizer.
Assessment of healthcare worker's hand hygiene and infection prevention
However, only 65.2% of them practiced hand hygiene before touching a patient and 54.5% after touching the patient surroundings. Hand hygiene practices were followed by 13.6% HCWs only on being visibly soiled. Alcohol based hand rubs were used by 94% of them and 71.2% washed their hands with soap and water when they were visibly soiled.
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Explore the latest full-text research PDFs, articles, conference papers, preprints and more on HAND HYGIENE. Find methods information, sources, references or conduct a literature review on HAND ...
The effect of behavioural interventions targeting hand hygiene
Hand hygiene is a critical behaviour for infection control but efforts to raise compliance among clinical professionals have been met with mixed success. The aim of this systematic review was to identify the effectiveness of the behaviour change techniques utilised in recent hand hygiene interventions that seek to improve hand hygiene compliance among nurses in hospitals in high-income countries.
Hand hygiene practices for prevention of health care-associated
While there have been previous reviews of hand hygiene practices, and associated interventions for improvement, across healthcare settings generally, there has been comparatively little emphasis placed on emergency facilities specifically. ... Common infection control practices in the emergency department: A literature review. Am J Infect ...
A systematic review of hand-hygiene and environmental-disinfection
Background: Helping adults and children develop better hygiene habits is an important public health focus. As infection causing bacteria can live on one's body and in the surrounding environment, more effective interventions should simultaneously encourage personal-hygiene (e.g. hand-hygiene) and environmental-disinfecting (e.g. cleaning surfaces).
A systematic review on hand hygiene knowledge and compliance ...
Aim: To systematically appraise and synthesize articles on hand hygiene knowledge and compliance among nursing students. Methods: This is a systematic review of scientific articles published from 2006 to 2016. The primary databases used were as follows: PubMed, Embase, Cumulative Index to Nursing & Allied Health Literature, Proquest and PsychINFO.
PDF Hand Hygiene: A review of literature and programmes
Hand Hygiene Review (August 2022) 6 Methods The literature review consisted of a non-systematic, time-limited search. The search comprised two parts (1) a review of the academic literature since 2005, (2) a review of advice published by institutions around the world and examples of programmes at international, national, and facility level.
Hand hygiene: Back to the basics of infection control
Historical background. The significance of hand washing in patient care was conceptualized in the early 19 th century 6 - 8.Labarraque 6 provided the first evidence that hand decontamination can markedly reduce the incidence of puerperal fever and maternal mortality. Semmelweis 7 worked in the Great hospital in Vienna in the 1840s. There were two maternity clinics in the hospital, with ...
Comparison of hand hygiene evaluations: A literature review
Tran, Judy, "Comparison of hand hygiene evaluations: A literature review" (2009). Texas Medical Center Dissertations (via ProQuest). AAI1467437. Background. Because our hands are the most common mode of transmission for bacteria causing hospital acquired infections, hand hygiene practices are the most effective method of preventing the spread ...
A review of hand-washing techniques in primary care and community
Aim: This review seeks to identify the most effective hand-washing and hand-cleansing practice that could be used in primary care. Background: Healthcare associated infection is a major problem in the UK causing 5000 deaths every year. Current guidelines indicate expert opinion is the level of evidence for hand washing as an activity to reduce infection.
Hand Hygiene Teaching Strategies among Nursing Staff: A Systematic Review
2.2. Study Selection, Data Collection, Critical Review, and Level of Evidence. The inclusion criteria were clinical trials; analyzing handwashing techniques and the effectiveness of different methods used by nurses or nursing students; being published in English or Spanish during the period January 2008 to July 2018; and being related to the subject of the present study.
Resources
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Examining the Importance of Hand Hygiene Policy and Patient Safety
The keywords used for database search were: hand hygiene, healthcare-associated infections, nosocomial infection, World Health Organization, and Health Care Quality Assurance. The databases used for literature review were: Cumulative Index to Nursing & Allied Health Literature (CINAHL), Medline, PubMed, Scopus, Google Scholar, and Science Direct.
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Background Helping adults and children develop better hygiene habits is an important public health focus. As infection causing bacteria can live on one's body and in the surrounding environment, more effective interventions should simultaneously encourage personal-hygiene (e.g. hand-hygiene) and environmental-disinfecting (e.g. cleaning surfaces). To inform the development of a future multi ...
Evidence of hand hygiene as the building block for infection prevention and control: an extract from the systematic literature reviews undertaken as the background for the WHO guidelines on core components of infection prevention and control programmes at the national and acute health care facility level.
Hand hygiene practices are paramount in reducing cross-transmission of microorganisms, hospital-acquired infections and the risk of occupational exposure to infectious diseases. ... Respiratory viral infection in early life and development of asthma in childhood: A protocol for systematic review and meta-analysis. Medicine (Baltimore). 2019 May ...
Hand hygiene improvement strategy. A strategy consist of a set of one or more techniques ( e.g., education, feedback, goal setting), intended to change specific determinants ( e.g., education to increase knowledge, feedback to raise awareness, guided practice to enhance self-efficacy) of HH behaviour.
A literature review of MDROs and the relationship with hand hygiene - summary pdf, 316kb; Moment 1 Global Moment 1 Global Observation Survey pdf, 88kb; Systematic review of automated electronic systems for hand hygiene monitoring (preliminary results) pdf, 168kb; WHO Hand Hygiene Self-Assessment Framework Global Survey Report 2011pdf, 413kb
Hand hygiene with alcohol-based hand rub is the most effective preventive strategy to reduce health-care-associated infections. Over the past two decades, various interventions have been introduced and studied to improve hand hygiene compliance among health-care workers. ... Conducting a literature review on hand hygiene. in: Pittet D Boyce JM ...
Of particular interest were sections on critically ill patients, neonates and pediatrics, long-term care facilities, and resource-poor settings. The text concludes with information about doing a literature review and with discussions of the role of hand hygiene in meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, Clostridium difficile, and norovirus ...
Hand hygiene is an expanding discipline of infection prevention and control and hospital epidemiology. Hand hygiene, hand disinfection, and hand sanitizers are the main MeSH vocabulary to index the hand hygiene literature. In the MeSH Tree structure, hand hygiene is a broader term than hand disinfection and more specific than Communicable ...
Objective: To estimate the global prevalence of handwashing with soap and derive a pooled estimate of the effect of hygiene on diarrhoeal diseases, based on a systematic search of the literature. Methods: Studies with data on observed rates of handwashing with soap published between 1990 and August 2013 were identified from a systematic search of PubMed, Embase and ISI Web of Knowledge.
A review of research works states that limited literature is available in relation to hand sanitizers and washing hands. As COVID-19 has rapidly spread worldwide, panic buying of sanitizers over the coronavirus pandemic has led to stocking up of sanitizer sprays, gels, and so on, without knowing the effect of the sanitizer.
However, only 65.2% of them practiced hand hygiene before touching a patient and 54.5% after touching the patient surroundings. Hand hygiene practices were followed by 13.6% HCWs only on being visibly soiled. Alcohol based hand rubs were used by 94% of them and 71.2% washed their hands with soap and water when they were visibly soiled.
Explore the latest full-text research PDFs, articles, conference papers, preprints and more on HAND HYGIENE. Find methods information, sources, references or conduct a literature review on HAND ...
Hand hygiene is a critical behaviour for infection control but efforts to raise compliance among clinical professionals have been met with mixed success. The aim of this systematic review was to identify the effectiveness of the behaviour change techniques utilised in recent hand hygiene interventions that seek to improve hand hygiene compliance among nurses in hospitals in high-income countries.
While there have been previous reviews of hand hygiene practices, and associated interventions for improvement, across healthcare settings generally, there has been comparatively little emphasis placed on emergency facilities specifically. ... Common infection control practices in the emergency department: A literature review. Am J Infect ...
Background: Helping adults and children develop better hygiene habits is an important public health focus. As infection causing bacteria can live on one's body and in the surrounding environment, more effective interventions should simultaneously encourage personal-hygiene (e.g. hand-hygiene) and environmental-disinfecting (e.g. cleaning surfaces).
Aim: To systematically appraise and synthesize articles on hand hygiene knowledge and compliance among nursing students. Methods: This is a systematic review of scientific articles published from 2006 to 2016. The primary databases used were as follows: PubMed, Embase, Cumulative Index to Nursing & Allied Health Literature, Proquest and PsychINFO.
Hand Hygiene Review (August 2022) 6 Methods The literature review consisted of a non-systematic, time-limited search. The search comprised two parts (1) a review of the academic literature since 2005, (2) a review of advice published by institutions around the world and examples of programmes at international, national, and facility level.
Historical background. The significance of hand washing in patient care was conceptualized in the early 19 th century 6 - 8.Labarraque 6 provided the first evidence that hand decontamination can markedly reduce the incidence of puerperal fever and maternal mortality. Semmelweis 7 worked in the Great hospital in Vienna in the 1840s. There were two maternity clinics in the hospital, with ...
Tran, Judy, "Comparison of hand hygiene evaluations: A literature review" (2009). Texas Medical Center Dissertations (via ProQuest). AAI1467437. Background. Because our hands are the most common mode of transmission for bacteria causing hospital acquired infections, hand hygiene practices are the most effective method of preventing the spread ...
Aim: This review seeks to identify the most effective hand-washing and hand-cleansing practice that could be used in primary care. Background: Healthcare associated infection is a major problem in the UK causing 5000 deaths every year. Current guidelines indicate expert opinion is the level of evidence for hand washing as an activity to reduce infection.
2.2. Study Selection, Data Collection, Critical Review, and Level of Evidence. The inclusion criteria were clinical trials; analyzing handwashing techniques and the effectiveness of different methods used by nurses or nursing students; being published in English or Spanish during the period January 2008 to July 2018; and being related to the subject of the present study.
Request for Proposals: State-of-the-Art Review of Scientific Studies on Plastic Pollution in Albania. Search all resources. IUCN Issues Briefs. IUCN Issues Briefs provide key information on selected issues central to IUCN's work. They are aimed at policy-makers, journalists or anyone looking for an accessible overview of the often complex ...
The keywords used for database search were: hand hygiene, healthcare-associated infections, nosocomial infection, World Health Organization, and Health Care Quality Assurance. The databases used for literature review were: Cumulative Index to Nursing & Allied Health Literature (CINAHL), Medline, PubMed, Scopus, Google Scholar, and Science Direct.