Open AccessHand hygiene compliance in the intensive care units of a tertiary care hospital
Author(s) -
Sharma Sk,
Seema Sharma,
Sandeep Puri,
J Whig
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
indian journal of community medicine/indian journal of community medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.375
H-Index - 32
eISSN - 1998-3581
pISSN - 0970-0218
DOI - 10.4103/0970-0218.86524
Subject(s) - medicine , hygiene , workload , compliance (psychology) , cross sectional study , health care , family medicine , tertiary care , intensive care , emergency medicine , nursing , intensive care medicine , psychology , social psychology , pathology , computer science , economics , economic growth , operating system
Hand hygiene (HH) is the most important measure to prevent hospital-acquired infections but the compliance is still low.