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Hand Hygiene
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Hygiene, Hand
Practices involved in preventing the transmission of diseases by hand.
National Institutes of Health
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2015
2015
Evaluating the effectiveness of real-time feedback on the bedside hand hygiene behaviors of nursing students.
Lora K. Ott
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V. Irani
Journal of Nursing Education
2015
Corpus ID: 10064758
BACKGROUND Traditional hand hygiene teaching methods lack long-term effectiveness. METHOD A longitudinal, within-subject design…
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2015
2015
Emotional motivators might improve hand hygiene among healthcare workers
L. Mccay
British medical journal
2015
Corpus ID: 10551123
Campaigns that use feelings such as disgust might help to reduce healthcare associated infection better than rational campaigns…
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2014
2014
Effectiveness of hand hygiene teaching on knowledge and compliance of hand washing among the students at a selected school in Mugalivakkam village , Kancheepuram District
Aruna
2014
Corpus ID: 33082275
Background: One of the major health problems in our country is unsanitary conditions especially poor hand hygiene leads to a…
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2013
Review
2013
Helping hands. Strategies to improve hand hygiene compliance in hospital care
A. Huis
2013
Corpus ID: 68312074
The study described in this thesis was funded by ZonMw – the Netherlands Organisation for Health Research and Development [ID…
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2012
2012
JAKOŚĆ W MEDYCYNIE Programme to improve hand hygiene in a paediatric cardiac surgery department
Radoslaw Jaworski
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I. Haponiuk
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+6 authors
Jacek Zieliński
2012
Corpus ID: 78223017
Introduction: Hand hygiene plays a great role in programmes for control of hospital infections. It is extremely important…
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2012
2012
Improving hand hygiene in New Zealand hospitals to increase patient safety and reduce costs: results from the first hand hygiene national compliance audit for 2012.
J. Freeman
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Christine Sieczkowski
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T. Anderson
,
A. Morris
,
Andrew Keenan
,
S. Roberts
The New Zealand medical journal
2012
Corpus ID: 1162952
Aim To examine how socioeconomic deprivation affects medium to long-term patient outcomes following hospital discharge for a…
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2011
2011
The Clinical Nurse Specialists' Use of Collaborative Governance to Improve Compliance With Hand Hygiene Practices in the Medical Intensive Care Unit (MICU)
Marquet T. Johnson
Clinical nurse specialist CNS
2011
Corpus ID: 6415108
Despite many efforts on the local and national levels to improve compliance with hand hygiene practices such as hand washing…
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2008
Review
2008
ASSESSING HAND HYGIENE IN OLDER PEOPLE'S CARE SETTINGS
L. Mackenzie
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I. James
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Karin Smith
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Damian Robinson
2008
Corpus ID: 77636365
Authors Lorna Mackenzie, DipHE, RMN, is challenging behaviour nurse specialist; Ian Andrew James, PhD, MSc, BSc, CPsychol, is…
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2007
2007
Coming clean on hand hygiene
S. Chetcuti
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M. Montefort
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E. Scicluna
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M. Borg
2007
Corpus ID: 34898750
Introduction: Hand hygiene is universally recognized as one of the most effective ways to reduce the cross-transmission of…
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Review
2003
Review
2003
A study of hand hygiene in the postanesthesia care unit--it's about time!
L. Herwaldt
Anesthesiology
2003
Corpus ID: 2413552
AS a hospital epidemiologist, my inclination when I reviewed the article by Pittet et al. entitled “Hand-cleansing during…
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