Hand hygiene and glove use in nursing homes before and after an intervention

We investigated whether an intervention to improve hand hygiene compliance in nursing homes changed glove use. Hand hygiene compliance increased, but substitution of hand hygiene with gloves did not decrease. We observed a reduction of inappropriately unchanged gloves after exposure to body fluids....

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Autores principales: Teesing, Gwen R., Richardus, Jan Hendrik, Erasmus, Vicki, Petrignani, Mariska, Koopmans, Marion P. G., Vos, Margreet C., Schols, Jos M.G.A., Voeten, Helene A.C.M.
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Publicado: Cambridge University Press 2021
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Concise Communication
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7873455/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33557988
http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/ice.2020.1415
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author Teesing, Gwen R.
Richardus, Jan Hendrik
Erasmus, Vicki
Petrignani, Mariska
Koopmans, Marion P. G.
Vos, Margreet C.
Schols, Jos M.G.A.
Voeten, Helene A.C.M.
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Richardus, Jan Hendrik
Erasmus, Vicki
Petrignani, Mariska
Koopmans, Marion P. G.
Vos, Margreet C.
Schols, Jos M.G.A.
Voeten, Helene A.C.M.
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description We investigated whether an intervention to improve hand hygiene compliance in nursing homes changed glove use. Hand hygiene compliance increased, but substitution of hand hygiene with gloves did not decrease. We observed a reduction of inappropriately unchanged gloves after exposure to body fluids. Clinical trials identifier: Netherlands Trial Register, trial NL6049 (NTR6188): https://www.trialregister.nl/trial/6049.
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spelling pubmed-78734552021-02-10 Hand hygiene and glove use in nursing homes before and after an intervention Teesing, Gwen R. Richardus, Jan Hendrik Erasmus, Vicki Petrignani, Mariska Koopmans, Marion P. G. Vos, Margreet C. Schols, Jos M.G.A. Voeten, Helene A.C.M. Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol Concise Communication We investigated whether an intervention to improve hand hygiene compliance in nursing homes changed glove use. Hand hygiene compliance increased, but substitution of hand hygiene with gloves did not decrease. We observed a reduction of inappropriately unchanged gloves after exposure to body fluids. Clinical trials identifier: Netherlands Trial Register, trial NL6049 (NTR6188): https://www.trialregister.nl/trial/6049. Cambridge University Press 2021-02-09 /pmc/articles/PMC7873455/ /pubmed/33557988 http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/ice.2020.1415 Text en © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 2021 http://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 in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Teesing, Gwen R.
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Vos, Margreet C.
Schols, Jos M.G.A.
Voeten, Helene A.C.M.
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title_full Hand hygiene and glove use in nursing homes before and after an intervention
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7873455/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33557988
http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/ice.2020.1415
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