التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
| العنوان: |
Cross-Sectional Survey of Hand-Hygiene Compliance and Attitudes of Health Care Workers and Visitors in the Intensive Care Units at King Chulalongkorn |
| المؤلفون: |
Memorial Hospital, Kanitha Patarakul |
| المساهمون: |
The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives |
| المصدر: |
http://www.mat.or.th/journal/files/Vol88_No4_287.pdfTest. |
| المجموعة: |
CiteSeerX |
| الوصف: |
Background: Hand hygiene is the most important and effective measure to prevent cross-infection in hospi-tals. Hand-hygiene campaign must be implemented as a part of infection control program at King Chulalongkorn Memorial Hospital (KCMH). The behavior, attitudes, and beliefs of health care workers (HCWs) and visitors regarding hand-hygiene practices have never been studied in KCMH. Objectives: To determine the baseline compliance and assess the attitudes and beliefs regarding hand hygiene of HCWs and visitors in intensive care units (ICUs) at KCMH. Material and Method: We observed hand-hygiene compliance of HCWs and visitors in ICUs before patient contact for eight hours. A self-administered questionnaire was employed to measure attitudes and beliefs about hand hygiene for two-week period. Results: Overall hand-hygiene compliance obtained from this observational study was less than 50 % and differed markedly among various professional categories of HCWs and visitors. In questionnaire-based study, patient needs perceived as a priority (51.2%) was the most common reason for non-compliance, followed by forgetfulness (35.7%), and skin irritation by hand-hygiene agents (15.5%). Subjects believed to improve their compliance by multiple strategies including available low irritating hand-hygiene agents (53.4%), informa-tion of current nosocomial infection rate (49.1%), and easily accessed hand-hygiene supplies (46.3%). Al- |
| نوع الوثيقة: |
text |
| وصف الملف: |
application/pdf |
| اللغة: |
English |
| العلاقة: |
http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.555.436Test; http://www.mat.or.th/journal/files/Vol88_No4_287.pdfTest |
| الإتاحة: |
http://www.mat.or.th/journal/files/Vol88_No4_287.pdfTest |
| حقوق: |
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| رقم الانضمام: |
edsbas.4ECBB5F1 |
| قاعدة البيانات: |
BASE |
