Hand hygiene knowledge, perception and practice of healthcare workers in a Turkish university hospital intensive care unit | Zendy

Uluhan Sili | Zendy; Pınar Ay | Zendy; Hüseyin Bilgin | Zendy; Seyhan Hıdıroğlu | Zendy; Volkan Korten | Zendy

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Hand hygiene knowledge, perception and practice of healthcare workers in a Turkish university hospital intensive care unit

Author(s) -

Uluhan Sili,

Pınar Ay,

Hüseyin Bilgin,

Seyhan Hıdıroğlu,

Volkan Korten

Publication year - 2019

Publication title -

the journal of infection in developing countries

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.322

H-Index - 49

eISSN - 2036-6590

pISSN - 1972-2680

DOI - 10.3855/jidc.10916

Subject(s) - turkish , hygiene , intensive care unit , health care , perception , healthcare worker , nursing , medicine , university hospital , medical emergency , psychology , intensive care medicine , political science , philosophy , linguistics , neuroscience , law , pathology

While improvement of hand hygiene (HH) compliance is considered as the best approach to reduce healthcare-associated infections, the instructional interventions in HH among healthcare workers of intensive care unit (ICU) of our hospital was not successful enough. The following study was conducted to evaluate HH knowledge, perception, practice and effectiveness of the trainings among healthcare workers of ICU in our hospital.

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