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Am J Infect Control · Mar 2019
Randomized Controlled TrialA pilot study to assess the impact of an educational patient hand hygiene intervention on acquisition of colonization with health care-associated pathogens.
- Herleen Rai, Carlos Saldana, Melany I Gonzalez-Orta, Shanina Knighton, Jennifer L Cadnum, and Curtis J Donskey.
- Research Service, Louis Stokes Cleveland Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Cleveland, OH; Geriatric Research Education and Clinical Center, Louis Stokes Cleveland Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Cleveland, OH.
- Am J Infect Control. 2019 Mar 1; 47 (3): 334-336.
AbstractPatient hand hygiene is a commonsense measure that has been associated with reductions in colonization or infection with bacterial and viral pathogens in quasi-experimental studies. We conducted a nonblinded pilot randomized trial to assess the impact of an educational patient hand hygiene intervention on acquisition of colonization by selected health care-associated pathogens in hospitalized patients. For patients with negative admission cultures, the intervention did not reduce the new acquisition of colonization by pathogens compared with that of standard care.Published by Elsevier Inc.
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