Sentences with phrase «measuring hand hygiene»

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The finding makes it all the more important that pregnant women get vaccinated against flu and practise basic hygiene measures like hand - washing, says Bradley Peterson of the Children's Hospital Los Angeles.

This research team notes that although healthcare exposure to infection was the most important risk factor for the development of MERS - CoV infection, in the ICU setting, where more strict infection control measures were applied (single rooms, dedicated 1:1 nurses, and better compliance with hand hygiene and isolation precautions), only one healthcare worker acquired the infection and no patient - to - patient transmission occurred.

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.

«Despite the delay in airborne precaution implementation, we suspect that high hand hygiene compliance, as a result of continuous implementation of proactive control measures against various viruses and multidrug - resistant organisms, protected frontline healthcare workers against many challenges of emerging infectious diseases.»

Touch surfaces made from solid antimicrobial copper are already used by hospitals, schools, mass transit hubs, sports facilities and offices around the world to reduce the spread of infections, supporting key infection control measures such as good hand hygiene and regular surface cleaning and disinfection.

«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.»

Although hand washing has long been regarded as the most effective preventative measure, estimates of hand hygiene compliance in the healthcare industry range from 40 to 70 percent.

Hand washing is the single most important hygiene measure in reducing the risk of transmitting infections amongst children and staff.

The most important preventive measure that we can employ to prevent the spread of disease among patients is proper hand hygiene.