Early communication: Does a national campaign to improve hand hygiene in the NHS work? Initial English and Welsh experience from the NOSEC study (National Observational Study to Evaluate the CleanYourHandsCampaign)
2007; Elsevier BV; Volume: 66; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1016/j.jhin.2007.04.011
ISSN1532-2939
AutoresS. Stone, R. Slade, Christopher Fuller, André Charlett, B Cookson, L. Teare, Annette Jeanes, Ben S. Cooper, Jennifer Roberts, G. Duckworth, Andrew Hayward, John McAteer, Susan Michie,
Tópico(s)Infection Control in Healthcare
ResumoThe National Patient Safety Agency's 'CleanYourHandsCampaign' (CYHC) seeks to improve healthcare workers' (HCWs) hand-hygiene behaviour in England and Wales and was rolled out to 187 acute hospitals between December 2004 and June 2005. 1 National Patient Safety Agency 2004. Achieving our aims. Evaluating the results of the pilot Cleanyourhands campaign. Google Scholar , 2 National Patient Safety Agency 2004. Ready, steady, go. The full guide to implementing the cleanyourhandscampaign in your Trust. Google Scholar , 3 National Patient Safety Agency 2006 Flowing with the Go. The complete year two campaign maintanence handbook for cleanyourhands partner trusts. The sequel to Ready, steady, go. Google Scholar It consists of provision of 'near-patient alcohol hand rub (AHR)', at the bedside, 'talking walls' (posters on each ward changed every month) and 'patient empowerment' (materials telling patients to ask HCWs to clean their hands). An optional component was six-monthly audit and feedback of hand hygiene. The aims of the multidisciplinary NOSEC study are to determine whether the campaign is implemented successfully and sustained, whether it results in increased hand hygiene, and to document concurrent changes in healthcare-associated infection (HCAI) rates.
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