Open AccessHand-hygiene compliance by hospital staff and incidence of health-care-associated infections, Finland
Author(s) -
Helena Ojanperä,
Outi Kanste,
Hannu Syrjälä
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
bulletin of the world health organization
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.459
H-Index - 168
eISSN - 1564-0604
pISSN - 0042-9686
DOI - 10.2471/blt.19.247494
Subject(s) - hygiene , medicine , incidence (geometry) , cross infection , compliance (psychology) , family medicine , environmental health , health care , emergency medicine , pathology , psychology , social psychology , physics , optics , economics , economic growth
To determine changes in hand-hygiene compliance after the introduction of direct observation of hand-hygiene practice for doctors and nurses, and evaluate the relationship between the changes and the incidence of health-care-associated infections.