ArticleInterventional medicine & applied science2017
Impact of a multicomponent hand hygiene intervention strategy in reducing infection rates at a university hospital in Saudi Arabia.
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- Efficacy and safety of unrestricted visiting policy for critically ill patients: a meta-analysis.Critical care (London, England) · 2022Pooled it
- Hand Hygiene Teaching Strategies among Nursing Staff: A Systematic Review.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2019Pooled it
- Multimodal Hand Hygiene Interventions and Clinical Healthcare-Associated Infection Outcomes in Acute Care Hospitals: A Systematic Review of Quasi-Experimental Studies.Journal of clinical medicine · 2026Review
- Hand hygiene compliance and improvement interventions in the Eastern Mediterranean Region: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Infection prevention in practice · 2024Review
- Knowledge, Attitude and Practice of Hand Hygiene among Healthcare Workers Caring for Children with Leukaemia in the Paediatric Oncology Ward of King Saud Medical City, Saudi Arabia.The Malaysian journal of medical sciences : MJMS · 2023Article
- Interventions to improve knowledge or compliance to hand hygiene in nursing students: A scoping review.Journal of infection prevention · 2023Article
- Effect of Hand Hygiene Intervention in Community Kindergartens: A Quasi-Experimental Study.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- Preventive Measures and Management of Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infection in Adult Intensive Care Units in Saudi Arabia.Journal of epidemiology and global health · 2021Review
- Hand Areas Which Are Commonly Missed during Hand Disinfection by Nursing Students Who Completed a Basic Educational Course in Hand Hygiene.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Article
- Assessment of nursing students perceptions of their training hospital's infection prevention climate: A multi-university study in Saudi Arabia.Nurse education today · 2019Article
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Abstract
BACKGROUND AND
aimsFew studies have reported the correlation between hand hygiene (HH) practices and infection rates in Saudi Arabia. This work was aimed to study the effect of a multicomponent HH intervention strategy in improving HH compliance and reducing infection rates at King Fahd Hospital of the University, Al-Khobar, Saudi Arabia between January 2014 and December 2016.
methodsA yearlong multicomponent HH intervention, which included various strategies recommended by the World Health Organization, was introduced. HH compliance among staff and infection rates observed in the inpatient wards were assessed and compared at pre- and post-interventional phases.
resultsThere was a significant increase in mean HH compliance from 50.17% to 71.75% after the intervention (
conclusionsResults show that multicomponent intervention is effective in improving HH compliance, and that an increase in HH compliance among hospital staff decreases infection rates. Further studies on cost-effectiveness of such a model could augment to these findings.
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