Compliance with a novel hand hygiene protocol tailored to non-sterile healthcare workers in the operating theatre.

Background: Observing hand hygiene compliance (HHC) among non-sterile healthcare workers (HCWs) in the operating theatre (OT) is challenging as there are no tailored protocols or observation tools.

Aim: To develop and test a hand hygiene protocol tailored to non-sterile HCWs in the OT.

Methods: In this prospective observational study, nine hospitals in the Rotterdam-Rijnmond region provided input on a draft protocol on hand hygiene in the OT, resulting in a new consensus protocol for the region.

A multimodal regional intervention strategy framed as friendly competition to improve hand hygiene compliance.

Objective: To investigate the effects of friendly competition on hand hygiene compliance as part of a multimodal intervention program.

Design: Prospective observational study in which the primary outcome was hand hygiene compliance. Differences were analyzed using the Pearson χ2 test.

An eight-year follow-up to a randomized clinical trial of participant satisfaction with three types of mandibular implant-retained overdentures.

Studies have shown that mandibular implant overdentures significantly increase satisfaction and quality of life of edentulous elders. Improved chewing ability appears to have a positive impact on nutritional state. Therefore, it is important to determine the best design of this prosthesis over the long term.

[Reconstruction of the severely resorbed mandible using autologous bone and implants. An evaluation after 5 years].

Objective: Evaluation of edentulous patients with severely resorbed mandibles simultaneously treated with bone out of the iliac crest and implants.

Design: Prospective.

Material: Thirty-one females between 42 and 61 years of age, were surgically treated and provided with a bar construction or attachments with an overdenture.