Healthcare-associated infections are a significant cause of morbidity and mortality. Hand hygiene is considered an effective method of prevention. This article summarizes the results of a Cochrane systematic review evaluating methods for improving hand hygiene compliance in patient care.
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BMC Public Health
December 2024
Hannover Medical School (MHH), Centre of Public Health, Department of Medical Psychology, Carl-Neuberg-Str. 1, Hannover, 30625, Germany.
Background: Zoonotic diseases are partly associated with pets. However, data is sparse on pet owners' compliance with preventive recommendations. Also, research focuses on self-reports, which are subject to overestimation biases, i.
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December 2024
Veterinary Public Health, College of Veterinary Medicine and Agriculture, Addis Ababa University, Bishoftu, Ethiopia.
Background: Salmonella enterica is a major cause of foodborne illness and mortality worldwide, but its presence in milk along the milk supply chain and associated public health risks are under-studied. This research was aimed to investigate the occurrence and antimicrobial susceptibility of Salmonella enterica in milk, milking environments, milkers' hands, and diarrheic patients in Wolaita Sodo, Ethiopia.
Methods: We collected 644 samples from 106 dairy farms that include direct milk from cow, bulk tank milk, milkers' hand swabs, teat surfaces swabs, farm floors swabs, milk storage containers swabs, collectors' bulk milk, retailers' bulk milk, and stool from diarrheic patients.
AIDS
December 2024
HAND research group, School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Mulungushi University, Livingstone, Zambia.
J Clin Nurs
December 2024
School of Nursing, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia.
Aims: To investigate the impact of the nursing practice environment, nurse staffing, working overtime and compliance with hand hygiene standards on hospital-acquired infections.
Design: A multi-source quantitative study.
Methods: Nursing data were collected from selected wards in one hospital between 18 January 2021 and 15 March 2021.
Zhonghua Yu Fang Yi Xue Za Zhi
December 2024
Office of Tianjin Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Tianjin300011, China.
To investigate the level of serum-neutralizing antibodies against Coxsackievirus A6 (CVA6) in a healthy population in Tianjin City from 2014 to 2020. From March 2014 to March 2020, 5 492 healthy volunteers were recruited in Tianjin City. The demographic information, personal hygiene habits, living environment hygiene, contact history with hand, foot and mouth disease cases within 6 months before the survey, history of upper respiratory tract infection, and medical history of the subjects were investigated using a self-designed questionnaire.
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