Open AccessA Study to Assess Knowledge and Attitude Regarding Hand Hygiene amongst Residents and Nursing Staff in a Tertiary Health Care Setting of Bhopal City
Author(s) -
Veena Maheshwari,
Navin Chandra M Kaore,
Vijay Kumar Ramnani,
Sanjay Gupta,
Amod Borle,
Rituja Kaushal
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
journal of clinical and diagnostic research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2249-782X
pISSN - 0973-709X
DOI - 10.7860/jcdr/2014/8510.4696
Subject(s) - hygiene , medicine , health care , tertiary care , infection control , transmission (telecommunications) , nursing , hand washing , family medicine , significant difference , nursing staff , health professionals , environmental health , intensive care medicine , pathology , engineering , electrical engineering , economics , economic growth
Infection due to hospital-acquired microbes is an evolving problem worldwide, and horizontal transmission of bacterial organism continues to cause a high nosocomial infection rate in health care settings. Most nosocomial infections are thought to be transmitted by the hands of health care workers.The application of hand hygiene is effective in reducing infection rates.