The important role of sink location in handwashing compliance and microbial sink contamination

被引：16

作者：

Cloutman-Green, Elaine ^{[1
]}

Kalaycioglu, Oya ^{[2
]}

Wojani, Hedieh ^{[3
,4
]}

Hartley, John C. ^{[1
]}

Guillas, Serge ^{[2
]}

Malone, Deirdre ^{[1
]}

Gant, Vanya ^{[5
]}

Grey, Colin ^{[4
]}

Klein, Nigel ^{[3
]}

机构：

[1] Great Ormond St Hosp NHS Fdn Trust, Camelia Botnar Lab, Dept Microbiol Virol & Infect Prevent & Control, London WC1N 3JH, England

[2] UCL, Dept Stat Sci, London, England

[3] UCL, Inst Child Hlth, Infect Dis & Microbiol Unit, London, England

[4] Univ Reading, HaCIRIC, Reading, Berks, England

[5] Univ Coll London Hosp, Dept Microbiol, London, England

来源：

AMERICAN JOURNAL OF INFECTION CONTROL | 2014年 / 42卷 / 05期

基金：

美国国家卫生研究院; 英国工程与自然科学研究理事会;

关键词：

Health care-associated infection; Sinks; Multilevel analysis; Intensive care; Health care environment; HAND-HYGIENE BEHAVIOR;

D O I：

10.1016/j.ajic.2013.12.020

中图分类号：

R1 [预防医学、卫生学];

学科分类号：

1004 ; 120402 ;

摘要：

Handwashing is one of the most important means of reducing the spread of infection. In this study, we investigated how sink location and visibility influences handwashing and microbial contamination detected on clinical sinks in 3 pediatric intensive care units. We conclude that the visibility of sinks directly impacts on handwashing frequency and duration and also impacts on levels of bacterial contamination on and around the sink area. Crown Copyright (C) 2014 Published by Elsevier Inc. on behalf of the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology, Inc. All rights reserved.

引用

页码：554 / 555

页数：2

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