ArticleInfection control and hospital epidemiology2022
The impact of workload on hand hygiene compliance: Is 100% compliance achievable?
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- Uncovering the obstacles: a comprehensive analysis of barriers to hand hygiene adherence among healthcare providers: a systematic review.BMC infectious diseases · 2025Pooled it
- Alcohol-based decontamination of gloved hands: A randomized controlled trial.Infection control and hospital epidemiology · 2024Trial
- Multidimensional assessment of hand hygiene compliance and its association with healthcare-associated infection incidence in intensive care units.Antimicrobial resistance and infection control · 2026Observational
- High Bed Occupancy Rates in Internal Medicine Departments Are Associated with Lower Hand Hygiene Compliance.Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) · 2026Article
- Assessing the COVID-19 legacy on hand hygiene: Retrospective observational before-after study of compliance and alcohol-based.PLOS global public health · 2026Article
- The Nursing Organisational Context and the Surgical Site Infections: A Structural Equational Model.Nursing open · 2025Observational
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- Strengthening neonatal care through ward assistants: a Kenyan case study in enhancing infection prevention and control practices.Antimicrobial resistance and infection control · 2025Article
- To construct the norm of hand hygiene behavior scale for medical staff in tertiary general hospitals in China.Frontiers in medicine · 2025Article
- Nosocomial outbreak caused by disinfectant-resistantEuro surveillance : bulletin Europeen sur les maladies transmissibles = European communicable disease bulletin · 2024Article
- Central aspects when implementing an electronic monitoring system for assessing hand hygiene in clinical settings: A grounded theory study.Journal of infection prevention · 2024Article
- Hand hygiene knowledge, attitude, barriers and improvement measures among healthcare workers in the Republic of Korea: a cross-sectional survey exploring interprofessional differences.Antimicrobial resistance and infection control · 2023Article
- Have Hand Hygiene Practices in Two Tertiary Care Hospitals, Freetown, Sierra Leone, Improved in 2023 following Operational Research in 2021?Tropical medicine and infectious disease · 2023Article
- Sustainability of a well-established hand hygiene program during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic.Antimicrobial stewardship & healthcare epidemiology : ASHE · 2022Article
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Abstract
Hand hygiene compliance decreased significantly when opportunities exceeded 30 per hour. At higher workloads, the number of healthcare worker types involved and the proportion of hand hygiene opportunities for which physicians and other healthcare workers were responsible increased. Thus, care complexity and risk to patients may both increase with workload.
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