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World Health Organization World Hand Hygiene Day, 5 May 2024. SAVE LIVES: clean your hands campaign: promoting knowledge and capacity building on infection prevention and control, including hand hygiene, among health and care workers
The World Health Organization’s (WHO) World Hand Hygiene Day continues to “bring people together and accelerate hand hygiene action at the point of...
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Train-the-Trainers in hand hygiene facilitate the implementation of the WHO hand hygiene multimodal improvement strategy in Japan: evidence for the role of local trainers, adaptation, and sustainability
Background“Train-the-Trainers in hand hygiene” (TTT) is a standardized training to train infection prevention and control (IPC) practitioners with...
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Ten years of hand hygiene excellence: a summary of outcomes, and a comparison of indicators, from award-winning hospitals worldwide
BackgroundHand hygiene is a crucial measure for the prevention of healthcare-associated infections (HAIs). The Hand Hygiene Excellence Award (HHEA)...
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Evidence-based hand hygiene: Liquid or gel handrub, does it matter?
BackgroundRecent studies put under scrutiny the prevailing hand hygiene guidelines, which incorporate quantitative parameters regarding handrub...
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Updates and future directions regarding hand hygiene in the healthcare setting: insights from the 3rd ICPIC alcohol-based handrub (ABHR) task force
Healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) and antimicrobial resistance (AMR) pose threats to global health. Effective hand hygiene is essential for...
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Are emojis ready to promote the WHO 5 moments for hand hygiene in healthcare?
BackgroundHand hygiene is universally recognized as a cornerstone measure for the prevention of healthcare-associated infections. Although the WHO...
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Hand hygiene compliance and its drivers in long-term care facilities; observations and a survey
BackgroundHand hygiene is an important measure to prevent healthcare-associated infections in long-term care facilities.
ObjectivesTo evaluate...
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Hand hygiene compliance in a Brazilian COVID-19 unit: the impact of moments and contact precautions
BackgroundHealthcare-associated infections are among the most common complications during hospitalization. These infections increase morbidity and...
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Is virtual reality suitable for hand hygiene training in health care workers? Evaluating an application for acceptability and effectiveness
BackgroundFor effective prevention of nosocomial transmissions continuous training and motivation of health care workers (HCW) are essential to...
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Hand hygiene knowledge, attitude, barriers and improvement measures among healthcare workers in the Republic of Korea: a cross-sectional survey exploring interprofessional differences
BackgroundHand hygiene (HH) is a fundamental component of infection prevention and control in healthcare settings. This study aimed to identify...
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The combined application of hand hygiene and non-sterile gloves by nurses in a tertiary hospital: a multi methods study
BackgroundThe application of hand hygiene (HH) and the use of non-sterile gloves (NSG) in daily care is highly intertwined. We aimed (1) to assess...
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Hand hygiene compliance and its associated factors among health care providers in primary hospitals of Waghimira Zone, Northeast Ethiopia: a mixed study design
IntroductionHand hygiene compliance is the problem of develo** nations particularly in Sub-Saharan Africa including Ethiopia. Despite a lot of...
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Hand hygiene improvement of individual healthcare workers: results of the multicentre PROHIBIT study
BackgroundTraditionally, hand hygiene (HH) interventions do not identify the observed healthcare workers (HWCs) and therefore, reflect HH compliance...
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Do task and item difficulty affect overestimation of one’s hand hygiene compliance? A cross-sectional survey of physicians and nurses in surgical clinics of six hospitals in Germany
BackgroundOne barrier to hand hygiene compliance is overestimation of one’s own performance. Overconfidence research shows that overestimation tends...
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Improving hand hygiene practices in two regional hospitals in Kenya using a continuous quality improvement (CQI) approach
BackgroundHand hygiene (HH) is central in prevention of health care-associated infections. In low resource settings, models to improve HH compliance...
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Knowledge, awareness, and risk practices related to bacterial contamination of antiseptics, disinfectants, and hand hygiene products among healthcare workers in sub-saharan Africa: a cross-sectional survey in three tertiary care hospitals (Benin, Burkina Faso, and DR Congo)
BackgroundAntiseptics, disinfectants, and hand hygiene products can be contaminated with bacteria and cause healthcare-associated infections, which...
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Ethanol is indispensable for virucidal hand antisepsis: memorandum from the alcohol-based hand rub (ABHR) Task Force, WHO Collaborating Centre on Patient Safety, and the Commission for Hospital Hygiene and Infection Prevention (KRINKO), Robert Koch Institute, Berlin, Germany
BackgroundThe approval of ethanol by the Biocidal Products Regulation has been under evaluation since 2007. This follows concern over alcohol uptake...
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Assessing the accuracy of a new hand hygiene monitoring device (SmartRub®): from the laboratory to clinical practice
BackgroundWe developed SmartRub® powered by iQati®, an electronic device composed of a wristband and an alcohol-based handrub pocket-sized dispenser...
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Appropriate number of observations for determining hand hygiene compliance among healthcare workers
We sought to determine the minimum number of observations needed to determine hand hygiene (HH) compliance among healthcare workers. The study was...
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Effectiveness and sustainability of the WHO multimodal hand hygiene improvement strategy in the University Hospital Bouaké, Republic of Côte d'Ivoire in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic
IntroductionThe most frequent adverse events in healthcare are healthcare-associated infections, whose burden is highest in resource-limited...
