Sentences with phrase «improved hand hygiene»

«The degree of transmission we demonstrated in our study has directly led to the prioritization of improved hand hygiene practices at the study hospital.»

Although audit and feedback is often suggested as a way of improving hand hygiene, this study puts its use on a firmer footing than previous non-randomised studies, providing the strongest evidence yet that this is an effective way to improve hand hygiene when coupled with a repeating cycle of personalised goal - setting and action planning.

«Programs to improve hand hygiene reduced infections, increased compliance.»

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Clean the World has a mission to put soap in the hands of people who need it most to improve hygiene and sanitation conditions, to reduce the impact of disease and to promote better hygiene and living conditions worldwide.

Thousands of deaths could be averted through a combined prevention and treatment strategy — interventions such as improved mother and child nutrition, optimal breastfeeding practices; Oral Rehydration Therapy [ORT]; new low - osmolarity formulations of ORS; incorporating rotavirus vaccines; zinc supplementation during diarrhoea episodes; immunizing all children against measles; appropriate drug therapy; increased access to safe clean water and sanitation facilities and improved personal and domestic hygiene, including keeping food and water clean and washing hands before touching food.

The study was carried out across 60 wards in 16 hospitals that were already implementing the English and Welsh Cleanyourhands campaign, the study showed that an intervention that coupled feedback to personalised action planning improved hand - hygiene compliance by up to 18 per cent on Intensive Therapy Units and 13 per cent on Acute Care of the Elderly wards.

President of the YPI, Akosua Ntiriwaa Anti, who together with some members of the group officially handed over the toilet facility to the school, told Citi News the initiative was to help eliminate open defecation to improve health and hygiene among students.

Improve Accessibility and Acceptability of Products: Soap and alcohol - based hand rubs (ABHR) should be convenient for routine hand hygiene in all patient care areas.

Provide meaningful feedback on hand hygiene performance with clear targets and an action plan for improving adherence.

Measure Progress: Monitoring hand hygiene adherence is critical to improving practice, but there are many monitoring methods used and promoted in various settings, including advanced technologies.

«These results show that patient hand hygiene can be improved with easily implemented measures that have very meaningful and potentially life - saving consequences,» said lead author Marian Pokrywka, M.S., infection preventionist at UPMC.

«This work adds to the body of evidence pertaining to intraoperative bacterial transmission because it identifies targets for improved frequency and quality of environmental cleaning as well as important periods for hand hygiene compliance, namely induction and emergence from general anesthesia,» state the authors.

«The leveling off of CDI incidence toward the end of our study period may be the result of increased antibiotic stewardship programs and improved infection control measures, such as use of contact precautions, cleaning and disinfection of equipment, and environment, and hand hygiene.»

A new study used video to observe hand washing behavior to gain insights that could improve design, monitoring and evaluation of hygiene campaigns.

Safety and hygiene has also been improved more generally by greater public awareness, in areas like hand hygiene for instance.

Outbreaks like swine flu and bird flu have called for improved education about hygiene in schools and have encouraged further educating about hand washing, cleanliness and personal hygiene.