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2017 2 PERSONAL HYGIENE IN THE HEALTH SECTOR The focus on good personal hygiene is growing due to the increasing number of antibiotic-resistant bacteria. Inadequate personal hygiene may result in contagious diseases spreading, resulting in sick days, reduced ability to work, poor quality of life – or worst case premature death.
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• Hand Hygiene for Health Care Settings • Recommendations for the Prevention, Detection and Management of Occupational Contact Dermatitis in Health Care Settings • COVID-19 Preparedness and Prevention in Elementary and Secondary (K -12) Schools Checklist Other resources: • Protecting Your Hands Fact Sheet for Health Care Providers. 11
16. Hand hygiene practices among health-care workers 66 and adherence to recommendations 16.1 Hand hygiene practices among health-care workers 16.2 Observed adherence to hand cleansing 16.3 Factors affecting adherence 17. Religious and cultural aspects of hand hygiene 78 17.1 Importance of hand hygiene in different religions
Why is Hand Hygiene Important? 1 out of every 25 patients has a healthcare-associated infection • The microbes that cause healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) can be transmitted on the hands of healthcare personnel • Hand hygiene is one of the MOST important ways to prevent the spread of infection • Too often healthcare personnel do
Jun 20, 2022 · important to take care of the hands by regularly using a protective hand cream or lotion, at least daily. Summary technique • If available, perform handrubbing with an alcohol-based handrub product as the preferred method for hand hygiene in health care, if hands are not visibly soiled (2,4,5). Apply enough alcohol-based handrub product
germ transmission during health care. • Hand hygiene is therefore the most important measure to avoid the transmission of harmful germs and prevent health care-associated infections. • This brochure explains how and when to practice hand hygiene. WHO? • Any health-care worker, caregiver or person involved in direct or indirect
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of Healthcare Quality Promotion, Steve Solomon, M.D., Acting Director. Guideline for Hand Hygiene in Health-Care Settings Recommendations of the Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee and the HICPAC/SHEA/APIC/IDSA Hand Hygiene Task Force Prepared by John M. Boyce, M.D.1 Didier Pittet, M.D.2 1Hospital of Saint Raphael