Improving patients’ hand hygiene in the acute care setting: Is staff education enough?

Yanet Manresa; Lilian Abbo; Kathleen Sposato; Dennise de Pascale; Adriana Jimenez

doi:10.1016/j.ajic.2019.12.007

Improving patients’ hand hygiene in the acute care setting: Is staff education enough?

Yanet Manresa, Lilian Abbo, Kathleen Sposato, Dennise de Pascale, Adriana Jimenez

Medicine

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Abstract

Patients’ hand hygiene (PHH) has been associated with reduction of healthcare-associated infections. We compared staff education about the importance of PHH versus providing patients with alcohol wipes for PHH. Our study found that staff education increased the percentage of patients reporting that they had been educated/encouraged to perform PHH but this intervention alone did not resulted in a statistically significant increase of the average frequency of PHH per day.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	1100-1101
Number of pages	2
Journal	American Journal of Infection Control
Volume	48
Issue number	9
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ajic.2019.12.007
State	Published - Sep 2020

Keywords

Hand hygiene
Hand sanitizing wipes
Healthcare workers education
Patient education
Patient hand hygiene

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Epidemiology
Health Policy
Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
Infectious Diseases

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