Background Hand hygiene prevents cross infection in hospitals, but compliance with
recommended instructions is commonly poor. We attempted to promote hand hygiene by …

Healthcare workers' hands are the most common vehicle for the transmission of healthcare-associated
pathogens from patient to patient and within the healthcare environment. Hand …

… Pittet et al published a study on hand hygiene among physicians in Ann Intern med 2004;
141:1-8. Similar to Pittet we performed a study among nurses and found a lack of consistency …

The World Health Organization's Guidelines on Hand Hygiene in Health Care have been
issued by WHO Patient Safety on 5 May 2009 on the occasion of the launch of the Save Lives: …

Hand cleansing is the primary action to reduce health-care-associated infection and cross-transmission
of antimicrobial-resistant pathogens. Patient-to-patient transmission of …

Hand hygiene prevents cross-infection in hospitals, but health-care workers' adherence to
guidelines is poor. Easy, timely access to both hand hygiene and skin protection is necessary …

Hand hygiene prevents cross-infection in hospitals, but compliance with recommended
instructions often is poor among healthcare workers. Although some previous interventions to …

Surgical site infections (SSIs) are among the most preventable health-care-associated
infections and are a substantial burden to health-care systems and service payers worldwide in …

Background Nosocomial infection is a leading complication in intensive care units. Although
hand hygiene is the single most efficient preventive measure, compliance with this simple …

Monitoring hand hygiene adherence and providing performance feedback to health care
workers is a critical component of multimodal hand hygiene promotion programs, but important …