Impact of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic on the adherence to hand hygiene practice in hospitals—Data from a Swiss national surveillance system

In >100,000 observations across Swiss acute-care hospitals, hand hygiene (HH) adherence significantly increased during the first coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) wave. However, despite persisting COVID-19 activity, HH adherence returned to prepandemic levels over a 2-year observation period. T...

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Autores principales: Rüfenacht, Susanne, Kohler, Philipp, Kuhn, Rolf, Flury, Domenica, Widmer, Andreas F., Schlegel, Matthias
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cambridge University Press 2023
Materias:
Concise Communication
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10507510/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36624690
http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/ice.2022.308
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Sumario:In >100,000 observations across Swiss acute-care hospitals, hand hygiene (HH) adherence significantly increased during the first coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) wave. However, despite persisting COVID-19 activity, HH adherence returned to prepandemic levels over a 2-year observation period. These results indicate that training and support remains challenging.

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