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Handwashing Quality: Impact of a Special Program

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Bruno Coignard ,
Bruno Grandbastien ,
Yasmina Berrouane ,
Christiane Krembel ,
Martine Queverue ,
Jean-Louis Salomez  and
Guy Martin
Bruno Coignard
Affiliation:
Service d'Epidémiologie et de Santé Publique, Centre Hospitalier Régional Universitaire, Lille, France
Bruno Grandbastien*
Affiliation:
Service d'Epidémiologie et de Santé Publique, Centre Hospitalier Régional Universitaire, Lille, France
Yasmina Berrouane
Affiliation:
Laboratoire de Bactériologie-Hygiène, Centre Hospitalier Régional Universitaire, Lille, France
Christiane Krembel
Affiliation:
Laboratoire de Bactériologie-Hygiène, Centre Hospitalier Régional Universitaire, Lille, France
Martine Queverue
Affiliation:
Unité de Lutte contre les Infections Nosocomiales, Centre Hospitalier Régional Universitaire, Lille, France
Jean-Louis Salomez
Affiliation:
Service d'Epidémiologie et de Santé Publique, Centre Hospitalier Régional Universitaire, Lille, France
Guy Martin
Affiliation:
Laboratoire de Bactériologie-Hygiène, Centre Hospitalier Régional Universitaire, Lille, France
*
Service d'Epidémiologie et de Santé Publique, Hôpital A. Calmette, CHRU de Lille, F 59037 Lille Cedex, France; e-mail, bcoignard@univ-lille2.fr
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Abstract

To evaluate the impact of a program on basic handwashing quality, a before-after audit was performed in a university hospital. We defined a 13-step protocol to describe a proper basic handwash (BHW). The proportion of BHW that satisfied this checklist increased significantly, from 4.2% before the program to 18.6% after, but these low proportions suggest that simpler alternatives to BHW should be studied

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Concise Communications
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Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 19 , Issue 7 , July 1998 , pp. 510 - 513
Copyright
Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 1998

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