Health care worker hand hygiene in the pediatric special care unit at Mulago National Referral Hospital in Uganda: a best practice implementation project
@article{Muhumuza2015HealthCW, title={Health care worker hand hygiene in the pediatric special care unit at Mulago National Referral Hospital in Uganda: a best practice implementation project}, author={Christine Muhumuza and Judith Christine Streak Gomersall and Makumbi E Fredrick and Lynn Atuyambe and Christopher Okiira and Aggrey David Mukose and John C. Ssempebwa}, journal={International Journal of Evidence-Based Healthcare}, year={2015}, volume={13}, pages={19–27} }
Introduction:The hands of a health care worker are a common vehicle of pathogen transmission in hospital settings. Health care worker hand hygiene is therefore critical for patients’ well being. Whilst failure of health care workers to comply with the best hand hygiene practice is a problem in all health care settings, issues of lack of access to adequate cleaning equipment and in some cases even running water make practicing good hand hygiene particularly difficult in low-resource developing…
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