Hand Hygiene

Overview

Journal BMJ

Specialty General Medicine

Date 2001 Aug 25

PMID 11520821

Citations 10

Authors

L Teare

B Cookson

S Stone

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Citing Articles

Increased Frequency of Hand Hygiene and Other Infection Prevention Practices Correlates with Reduced Surgical Wound Infection Rates in Spinal Surgery during the COVID-19 Pandemic.

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An analysis of the development and implementation of a smartphone application for the delivery of antimicrobial prescribing policy: lessons learnt.

Charani E, Kyratsis Y, Lawson W, Wickens H, Brannigan E, Moore L J Antimicrob Chemother. 2012; 68(4):960-7.

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How does healthcare worker hand hygiene behaviour impact upon the transmission of MRSA between patients?: an analysis using a Monte Carlo model.

Beggs C, Shepherd S, Kerr K BMC Infect Dis. 2009; 9:64.

PMID: 19445655 PMC: 2689235. DOI: 10.1186/1471-2334-9-64.

Religion and culture: potential undercurrents influencing hand hygiene promotion in health care.

Allegranzi B, Memish Z, Donaldson L, Pittet D Am J Infect Control. 2008; 37(1):28-34.

PMID: 18834738 PMC: 7115273. DOI: 10.1016/j.ajic.2008.01.014.

Increasing the frequency of hand washing by healthcare workers does not lead to commensurate reductions in staphylococcal infection in a hospital ward.

Beggs C, Shepherd S, Kerr K BMC Infect Dis. 2008; 8:114.

PMID: 18764942 PMC: 2553083. DOI: 10.1186/1471-2334-8-114.

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Stone S, Teare L, Cookson B . Guiding hands of our teachers. Hand-hygiene Liaison Group. Lancet. 2001; 357(9254):479-80. DOI: 10.1016/s0140-6736(05)71288-5. View

Pittet D, Hugonnet S, Harbarth S, Mourouga P, Sauvan V, Touveneau S . Effectiveness of a hospital-wide programme to improve compliance with hand hygiene. Infection Control Programme. Lancet. 2000; 356(9238):1307-12. DOI: 10.1016/s0140-6736(00)02814-2. View

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