Open AccessImpact of a multicomponent hand hygiene intervention strategy in reducing infection rates at a university hospital in Saudi Arabia
Author(s) -
Ahmed Al Kuwaiti
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
interventional medicine and applied science/interventional medicine and applied science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.195
H-Index - 14
eISSN - 2061-5094
pISSN - 2061-1617
DOI - 10.1556/1646.9.2017.24
Subject(s) - hygiene , medicine , intervention (counseling) , infection control , urinary system , emergency medicine , intensive care medicine , nursing , pathology
Few studies have reported the correlation between hand hygiene (HH) practices and infection rates in Saudi Arabia. This work was aimed to study the effect of a multicomponent HH intervention strategy in improving HH compliance and reducing infection rates at King Fahd Hospital of the University, Al-Khobar, Saudi Arabia between January 2014 and December 2016.