Giuseppe
Emeritus
[Source: Eurosurveillance, full text: (LINK). Extract, edited.]
D L Monnet (
)<SUP>1</SUP>, M Sprenger<SUP>1</SUP>
Citation style for this article: Monnet DL, Sprenger M. Hand hygiene practices in healthcare: measure and improve. Euro Surveill. 2012;17(18)
ii=20166. Available online: http://www.eurosurveillance.org/ViewArticle.aspx?ArticleId=20166
Date of submission: 03 May 2012 <HR>
Last year marked the 150th anniversary of the publication of Ignaz Semmelweis? landmark monograph on hand hygiene ? at the time hand disinfection with chlorinated lime solution ? as a means to prevent nosocomial infections [1]. All the necessary scientific evidence that improved hand hygiene practices in healthcare indeed reduce healthcare-associated infections and patient-to-patient transmission of microorganisms is available [2,3]. Moreover, several studies have shown that hand hygiene promotion programmes are cost-effective [3]. Still, in 2012, hand hygiene cannot be taken for granted in healthcare institutions in Europe and worldwide.
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Eurosurveillance, Volume 17, Issue 18, 03 May 2012
Editorials
Hand hygiene practices in healthcare: measure and improve
Editorials
Hand hygiene practices in healthcare: measure and improve
D L Monnet (
- European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC), Stockholm, Sweden
Citation style for this article: Monnet DL, Sprenger M. Hand hygiene practices in healthcare: measure and improve. Euro Surveill. 2012;17(18)
ii=20166. Available online: http://www.eurosurveillance.org/ViewArticle.aspx?ArticleId=20166 Date of submission: 03 May 2012 <HR>
Last year marked the 150th anniversary of the publication of Ignaz Semmelweis? landmark monograph on hand hygiene ? at the time hand disinfection with chlorinated lime solution ? as a means to prevent nosocomial infections [1]. All the necessary scientific evidence that improved hand hygiene practices in healthcare indeed reduce healthcare-associated infections and patient-to-patient transmission of microorganisms is available [2,3]. Moreover, several studies have shown that hand hygiene promotion programmes are cost-effective [3]. Still, in 2012, hand hygiene cannot be taken for granted in healthcare institutions in Europe and worldwide.
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