[Awareness and respect of procedures for hand hygiene: review of the literature].
The procedures necessary to ensure hand hygiene are simple and non-expensive but are extremely important for the patient and the quality of care he receives. It is therefore fundamental that health workers are aware of these procedures and how they should be performed to reduce the risks of care-related infections. The authors selected 195 articles from a review of the abundance of published reports in international journals, which deal with the awareness and respect of guidelines regarding hand hygiene on which to base their discussion.
Dipartimento Sanità Pubblica e Malattie Infettive, Sapienza Università di Roma.
Julita
J
Sansoni
Milena
M
Sorrentino
Enrichetta
E
Giammarco
Paola
P
Mariani
D019983:Guideline Adherence; D006235:Hand Disinfection / Q000592:standards*; D006801:Humans