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Titles listEvidence-based model for hand transmission during patient care and the role of improved practices
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Evidence-based model for hand transmission during patient care and the role of improved practices |
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| Published in | Lancet. Infectious diseases. 2006, vol. 6, no. 10, p. 641-652 | |
| Abstract | Hand cleansing is the primary action to reduce health-care-associated infection and cross-transmission of antimicrobial-resistant pathogens. Patient-to-patient transmission of pathogens via health-care workers' hands requires five sequential steps: (1) organisms are present on the patient's skin or have been shed onto fomites in the patient's immediate environment; (2) organisms must be transferred to health-care workers' hands; (3) organisms must be capable of surviving on health-care workers' hands for at least several minutes; (4) handwashing or hand antisepsis by the health-care worker must be inadequate or omitted entirely, or the agent used for hand hygiene inappropriate; and (5) the caregiver's contaminated hand(s) must come into direct contact with another patient or with a fomite in direct contact with the patient. We review the evidence supporting each of these steps and propose a dynamic model for hand hygiene research and education strategies, together with corresponding indications for hand hygiene during patient care. | |
| Keywords | Education — Fomites/microbiology — Hand/ microbiology — Handwashing — Health Personnel/education — Humans — Infectious Disease Transmission, Professional-to-Patient/ prevention & control — Microbial Viability — Models, Biological — Skin/microbiology | |
| Identifiers | PMID: 17008173 | |
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| Research group | Staphylocoques dorés résistants à la méthicilline et hygiène hospitalière (330) | |
| Citation (ISO format) | PITTET, Didier et al. Evidence-based model for hand transmission during patient care and the role of improved practices. In: Lancet. Infectious diseases, 2006, vol. 6, n° 10, p. 641-652. doi: 10.1016/S1473-3099(06)70600-4 https://archive-ouverte.unige.ch/unige:7489 |
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