Handwashing adherence by visitors is poor: Is there a simple solution?

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• 作者：Theodore A. Willison-Parry ; Elizabeth A.C. Haidar ; Luigi G. Martini ; Anthony R.M. Coates
• 关键词：Hand hygiene ; Compliance ; Nosocomial infection
• 刊名：American Journal of Infection Control
• 出版年：2013
• 出版时间：October, 2013
• 年：2013
• 卷：41
• 期：10
• 页码：928-929
• 全文大小：128 K

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Available evidence suggests that handwashing adherence by visitors to hospital clinics is poor. In this?investigation, an audit of 180 people showed that handwashing adherence by visitors to a hospital clinic was 25 % , which was very low. Our active method to encourage handwashing led to a marked improvement in adherence from 25 % to 68 % , increasing to 77 % for longer term visitors to the clinic (significance, P < .0001).