Accession strategy to hand hygiene by healthcare professionals

Authors

  • Danielle Galdino de Paula Universidade Federal do Estado do Rio de Janeiro
  • Fabiana Fernandes Pinto Universidade Federal do Estado do Rio de Janeiro
  • Renata Flávia Abreu da Silva Universidade Federal do Estado do Rio de Janeiro
  • Vanessa Galdino de Paula Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.17058/reci.v7i2.7731

Abstract

Background and Objective: Healthcare-associated infections are serious health threat to hospitalized patients and contribute to increased mortality and morbidity. Hand hygiene is the simplest individual measure and lower cost in order to prevent the spread of infections in health care services. The study seeks to analyze the publications related to the strategies used to improve adherence of health professionals to hand hygiene in hospital. Contents: Integrative literature review. The descriptors were used in isolation and the associated descriptor AND;OR, by the following inclusion criteria: work full text of Article kind, published in the period 2008-2015, in Portuguese and English and used the electronic databases MEDLINE , LILACS and SCIELO. The analysis determined eleven strategies most used to improve adherence to hand hygiene in hospital. Conclusion: The availability of better resources and the use of a single strategy sometimes was not enough to increase membership, and often necessary to apply various strategies together with health professionals. KEYWORDS: Cross infection. Hand hygiene. Health personnel.

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Author Biographies

Danielle Galdino de Paula, Universidade Federal do Estado do Rio de Janeiro

Doutora em Enfermagem. Professora da Universidade Federal do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (UNIRIO/RJ).

Fabiana Fernandes Pinto, Universidade Federal do Estado do Rio de Janeiro

Enfermeira graduada pela Universidade Federal do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (UNIRIO/RJ).

Renata Flávia Abreu da Silva, Universidade Federal do Estado do Rio de Janeiro

Doutora em enfermagem. Professora da Universidade Federal do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (UNIRIO/RJ).

Vanessa Galdino de Paula, Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro

Doutoranda em enfermagem. Professora da Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (UERJ/RJ).

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Published

2017-05-08

How to Cite

de Paula, D. G., Pinto, F. F., da Silva, R. F. A., & Paula, V. G. de. (2017). Accession strategy to hand hygiene by healthcare professionals. Revista De Epidemiologia E Controle De Infecção, 7(2), 113-121. https://doi.org/10.17058/reci.v7i2.7731

Issue

Vol. 7 No. 2 (2017)

Section

REVIEW ARTICLE

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