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Article: A review of the evidence for hand hygiene in different clinical and community settings for family physicians
Title | A review of the evidence for hand hygiene in different clinical and community settings for family physicians |
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Keywords | Bacteremia Clinical Practice Clinical Trial Community Care Diarrhea Gastrointestinal Infection Hand Washing Hospital Infection Hospital Patient Human Incidence Infection Prevention Long Term Care Meta Analysis Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus Physician Pneumonia Respiratory Tract Infection Review Risk Reduction School Sepsis Systematic Review Urinary Tract Infection Vancomycin Resistant Enterococcus Wound Infection |
Issue Date | 2007 |
Publisher | Hong Kong College of Family Physicians. The Journal's web site is located at http://www.hkcfp.org.hk/ |
Citation | Hong Kong Practitioner, 2007, v. 29 n. 4, p. 157-163 How to Cite? |
Abstract | This paper discusses the evidence of hand hygiene (mainly hygienic hand antisepsis) in reducing infections in different settings. In the hospital setting, there is convincing evidence that hand hygiene is effective in reducing nosocomial infections such as urinary tract infection, pneumonia, surgical wound infection and sepsis of in-patients, and in reducing the incidence rates of infection with methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) and vancomycin-resistant enterococci (VRE). In long-term care facilities, there is limited evidence to prove whether hand hygiene is effective or not in reducing infections. In institutions such as schools, it is evident that hand hygiene is effective in reducing gastrointestinal illnesses and probably respiratory illnesses among healthy children and young adults. In the community, it is evident that hand hygiene is effective in reducing diarrhoea among healthy individuals within families. Unfortunately, despite the above evidence, doctors are constantly reported to have poor compliance in many studies. Therefore it is important for doctors to improve their compliance in hand hygiene whether they practise in hospitals or in their own clinics. |
Persistent Identifier | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/92592 |
ISSN | 2023 SCImago Journal Rankings: 0.119 |
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DC Field | Value | Language |
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dc.contributor.author | Yeung, JWK | en_HK |
dc.contributor.author | Tam, WWS | en_HK |
dc.contributor.author | Wong, TW | en_HK |
dc.date.accessioned | 2010-09-17T10:51:04Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2010-09-17T10:51:04Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2007 | en_HK |
dc.identifier.citation | Hong Kong Practitioner, 2007, v. 29 n. 4, p. 157-163 | en_HK |
dc.identifier.issn | 1027-3948 | en_HK |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/92592 | - |
dc.description.abstract | This paper discusses the evidence of hand hygiene (mainly hygienic hand antisepsis) in reducing infections in different settings. In the hospital setting, there is convincing evidence that hand hygiene is effective in reducing nosocomial infections such as urinary tract infection, pneumonia, surgical wound infection and sepsis of in-patients, and in reducing the incidence rates of infection with methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) and vancomycin-resistant enterococci (VRE). In long-term care facilities, there is limited evidence to prove whether hand hygiene is effective or not in reducing infections. In institutions such as schools, it is evident that hand hygiene is effective in reducing gastrointestinal illnesses and probably respiratory illnesses among healthy children and young adults. In the community, it is evident that hand hygiene is effective in reducing diarrhoea among healthy individuals within families. Unfortunately, despite the above evidence, doctors are constantly reported to have poor compliance in many studies. Therefore it is important for doctors to improve their compliance in hand hygiene whether they practise in hospitals or in their own clinics. | en_HK |
dc.language | eng | en_HK |
dc.publisher | Hong Kong College of Family Physicians. The Journal's web site is located at http://www.hkcfp.org.hk/ | en_HK |
dc.relation.ispartof | Hong Kong Practitioner | en_HK |
dc.subject | Bacteremia | en_HK |
dc.subject | Clinical Practice | en_HK |
dc.subject | Clinical Trial | en_HK |
dc.subject | Community Care | en_HK |
dc.subject | Diarrhea | en_HK |
dc.subject | Gastrointestinal Infection | en_HK |
dc.subject | Hand Washing | en_HK |
dc.subject | Hospital Infection | en_HK |
dc.subject | Hospital Patient | en_HK |
dc.subject | Human | en_HK |
dc.subject | Incidence | en_HK |
dc.subject | Infection Prevention | en_HK |
dc.subject | Long Term Care | en_HK |
dc.subject | Meta Analysis | en_HK |
dc.subject | Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus | en_HK |
dc.subject | Physician | en_HK |
dc.subject | Pneumonia | en_HK |
dc.subject | Respiratory Tract Infection | en_HK |
dc.subject | Review | en_HK |
dc.subject | Risk Reduction | en_HK |
dc.subject | School | en_HK |
dc.subject | Sepsis | en_HK |
dc.subject | Systematic Review | en_HK |
dc.subject | Urinary Tract Infection | en_HK |
dc.subject | Vancomycin Resistant Enterococcus | en_HK |
dc.subject | Wound Infection | en_HK |
dc.title | A review of the evidence for hand hygiene in different clinical and community settings for family physicians | en_HK |
dc.type | Article | en_HK |
dc.identifier.email | Tam, WWS: wwstam@hkucc.hku.hk | en_HK |
dc.identifier.authority | Tam, WWS=rp01378 | en_HK |
dc.description.nature | link_to_subscribed_fulltext | - |
dc.identifier.scopus | eid_2-s2.0-34250674875 | en_HK |
dc.relation.references | http://www.scopus.com/mlt/select.url?eid=2-s2.0-34250674875&selection=ref&src=s&origin=recordpage | en_HK |
dc.identifier.volume | 29 | en_HK |
dc.identifier.issue | 4 | en_HK |
dc.identifier.spage | 157 | en_HK |
dc.identifier.epage | 163 | en_HK |
dc.publisher.place | Hong Kong | en_HK |
dc.identifier.scopusauthorid | Yeung, JWK=36818581700 | en_HK |
dc.identifier.scopusauthorid | Tam, WWS=9740867000 | en_HK |
dc.identifier.scopusauthorid | Wong, TW=7403531744 | en_HK |
dc.identifier.issnl | 1027-3948 | - |