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Cost implications of successful hand hygiene promotion
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Pittet, Didier
Sax, Hugo
Hugonnet, Stéphane
Harbarth, Stéphan Juergen
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
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PMID: 15061421
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Faculté de médecine / Section de médecine clinique / Département de médecine interne des spécialités
Research groups Groupe Harbarth Stephan (Staphylocoques dorés résistants à la méthicilline) (866)
Staphylocoques dorés résistants à la méthicilline et hygiène hospitalière (330)
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(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. https://archive-ouverte.unige.ch/unige:7514

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