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Cost implications of successful hand hygiene promotion |
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| Published in | Infection control and hospital epidemiology. 2004, vol. 25, no. 3, p. 264-266 | |
| Abstract | We evaluated the costs associated with a sustained and successful campaign for hand hygiene promotion that emphasized alcohol-based handrubs. The total cost of the hand hygiene promotion corresponded to less than 1% of the costs associated with nosocomial infections. Successful hand hygiene promotion is probably cost-saving. | |
| Keywords | Alcohols/ economics/therapeutic use — Anti-Infective Agents, Local/ economics/therapeutic use — Cross Infection/economics/ prevention & control — Follow-Up Studies — Handwashing/ methods — Health Education/economics — Health Promotion/economics — Humans — Hygiene/economics — Infection Control/ economics/methods — Personnel, Hospital/ education — Switzerland | |
| Identifiers | DOI: 10.1086/502389 PMID: 15061421 | |
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| Research groups | Epidémiologie et contrôle de la résistance aux antibiotiques (866) Staphylocoques dorés résistants à la méthicilline et hygiène hospitalière (330) | |
| Citation (ISO format) | PITTET, Didier et al. Cost implications of successful hand hygiene promotion. In: Infection control and hospital epidemiology, 2004, vol. 25, n° 3, p. 264-266. doi: 10.1086/502389 https://archive-ouverte.unige.ch/unige:7514 |
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