Positive Reinforcement to Create and Sustain a Culture Change in Hand Hygiene Practices in a Tertiary Care Academic Facility

Background Health care-associated infection is a major cause of morbidity and mortality. Hand hygiene is regarded as an e ective preventive measure. This is an update of a previously published review. Objectives To assess the short-and long-term success of strategies to improve compliance to recommendations for hand hygiene, and to determine whether an increase in hand hygiene compliance can reduce rates of health care-associated infection.

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Interventions to improve hand hygiene compliance in patient care

Gould

Moralejo

Drey

et al. 2017

Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews

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Positive Reinforcement to Create and Sustain a Culture Change in Hand Hygiene Practices in a Tertiary Care Academic Facility

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