Background Hand hygiene is monitored by direct observation to improve practice, but this
approach can potentially cause information, selection, and confounding bias, threatening …

Background The Hawthorne effect, or behaviour change due to awareness of being
observed, is assumed to inflate hand hygiene compliance rates as measured by direct …

OBJECTIVES: To explore critical care nurses' knowledge of, adherence to and barriers
towards evidence-based guidelines for prevention of ventilator-associated pneumonia …

Background: An observational study was conducted in 12 European countries by the
European Federation of Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine Working Group for the …

Introduction: Training in hand hygiene for health care workers is essential to reduce hospital-
acquired infections. Unfortunately, training in this competency may be perceived as tedious …

Background Healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) are a major threat to patient safety
worldwide. HAIs are mainly transmitted via the hands of healthcare workers (HCWs), and …

BACKGROUND: Hand hygiene (HH) is single most effective preventive measure for health
care–associated infection, but compliance rates remain low. This study estimated HH …

Objective: To determine whether benzodiazepine and propofol doses are increased at night
and whether daytime and nighttime sedative doses are associated with delirium, coma, and …

Aims: a) To investigate the health care workers' hand hygiene compliance rates in the
intensive care unit (ICU), b) to assess reasons for non-compliance and c) to study the …

Aims: To assess the compliance, identify factors influencing compliance and to study the
knowledge, attitude and perceptions associated with HH among health care workers (HCW) …