Hand Hygiene

Maureen K Bolon

doi:10.1016/j.idc.2010.11.001

Hand Hygiene

Maureen K Bolon^*

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Medicine, Infectious Diseases Division

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Abstract

The toll of health care-associated infections on patients and the seeming ease of the procedure thought best able to prevent them have focused a spotlight onto hand hygiene performance. Poor performance of hand hygiene by health care workers inspires outrage in the general public. Much is understood regarding barriers to and motivators of hand hygiene performance. Guidelines encouraging use of alcohol-based hand hygiene agents have facilitated hand hygiene improvement efforts. These efforts and evidence that improved hand hygiene performance is associated with a reduction in health care-associated infections should encourage those in the hand hygiene campaigns.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	21-43
Number of pages	23
Journal	Infectious Disease Clinics of North America
Volume	25
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.idc.2010.11.001
State	Published - Mar 1 2011

Keywords

Antisepsis
Hand hygiene
Hand washing
Health care workers

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Microbiology (medical)
Infectious Diseases

UN SDGs

This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

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