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Am J Infect Control
; 47(3): 334-336, 2019 03.
Article
in English
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-30471974
ABSTRACT
Patient hand hygiene is a commonsense measure that has been associated with reductions in colonization or infection with bacterial and viral pathogens in quasi-experimental studies. We conducted a nonblinded pilot randomized trial to assess the impact of an educational patient hand hygiene intervention on acquisition of colonization by selected health care-associated pathogens in hospitalized patients. For patients with negative admission cultures, the intervention did not reduce the new acquisition of colonization by pathogens compared with that of standard care.
Subject(s)
Behavior Therapy/methods , Carrier State/prevention & control , Cross Infection/prevention & control , Hand Hygiene/methods , Health Education/methods , Infection Control/methods , Female , Hospitals , Humans , Inpatients , Male , Middle Aged
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Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol
; 39(2): 233-234, 2018 02.
Article
in English
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-29282158