Effectiveness of a hospital-wide programme to improve compliance with hand hygiene. Infection Control Programme.

By Didier Pittet, S. Hugonnet, S. Harbarth, P. Mourouga, V. Sauvan, S. Touveneau, T. Perneger. The Lancet, 2000

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Subfields: Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine, Food Science, Infectious Diseases

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Citations in the corpus

• The molecular evolution of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus. (2007, background): “More effective disinfection procedures and hand hygiene guidelines could, in part, help to prevent the spread of MRSA in the hospital environment [116].”
• Guidelines for the management of adults with hospital-acquired, ventilator-associated, and healthcare-associated pneumonia. (2008, background): “Sources of pathogens for HAP include healthcare devices, the environment (air, water, equipment, and fomites), and commonly the transfer of microorganisms between the patient and staff or other patients (Level II) (3, 9, 12, 13, 27, 66, 92, 93).”
• Guidelines for Preventing Infectious Complications among Hematopoietic Cell Transplant Recipients: A Global Perspective (2009, neutral): “Additionally, the recommendations for contact precautions (AIII), vaccination (BI), and prophylaxis for patients with GVHD (AIII) against Streptococcus pneumoniae have been strengthened.”
• Guideline for Hand Hygiene in Health-Care Settings. Recommendations of the Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee and the HIPAC/SHEA/APIC/IDSA Hand Hygiene Task Force. (2002, methodology): “Other studies established that sustained improvements in handwashing behavior occurred during a longterm program to improve adherence to hand-hygiene policies (74,75).”
• Evidence-based model for hand transmission during patient care and the role of improved practices. (2006, background): “%) relative reduction in control hospital; no signifi cant change in MRSA 8 months Pittet et al (2000)93 Hospital-wide Signifi cant (p=0·04 and p<0·001) reduction in the annual overall prevalence of health-careassociated infections (41·5”
• Statistical physics of vaccination (2016, neutral): “Therefore we selected references that best captured the full breadth of research being undertaken in the field.”
• Improving adherence to hand hygiene practice: a multidisciplinary approach. (2001, methodology): “Seven quasi-experimental hospital-based studies of the impact of hand hygiene on the risk of hospital infections were published from 1977 to 1995 (Table 2) (7,22,58,60-63).”
• 'My five moments for hand hygiene': a user-centred design approach to understand, train, monitor and report hand hygiene. (2007, methodology): “A multi-modal approach to hand hygiene promotion has been found to be the most efficient technique to increase patient safety in a sustained way.(8,21,27,56,57) A robust description of the critical moments for hand hygiene is important for the various elements of a multi-modal strategy including tra”
• epic3: National Evidence-Based Guidelines for Preventing Healthcare-Associated Infections in NHS Hospitals in England (2007, background): “60, 61, 64, 67, [93] [94] [95] In addition, a longitudinal study of the introduction and subsequent use of ABHR over a 7-year period observed no reports of irritant and contact dermatitis associated with the use of ABHR. 51 We identiÀ ed a recent study which suggested that two ABHR preparations cont”