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
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Publicado: Cambridge University Press 2023
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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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author Rüfenacht, Susanne
Kohler, Philipp
Kuhn, Rolf
Flury, Domenica
Widmer, Andreas F.
Schlegel, Matthias
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description 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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spelling pubmed-105075102023-09-20 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 Rüfenacht, Susanne Kohler, Philipp Kuhn, Rolf Flury, Domenica Widmer, Andreas F. Schlegel, Matthias Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol Concise Communication 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. Cambridge University Press 2023-09 2023-01-10 /pmc/articles/PMC10507510/ /pubmed/36624690 http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/ice.2022.308 Text en © The Author(s) 2023 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted re-use, distribution and reproduction, provided the original article is properly cited.
spellingShingle Concise Communication
Rüfenacht, Susanne
Kohler, Philipp
Kuhn, Rolf
Flury, Domenica
Widmer, Andreas F.
Schlegel, Matthias
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
title 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
title_full 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
title_fullStr 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
title_full_unstemmed 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
title_short 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
title_sort 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
topic Concise Communication
url 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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