Engaging patients and family members in better hand hygiene practices: a teaching hospital's challenge.
It is universally agreed that healthcare workers need to wash their hands in order to help control the spread of hospital-acquired infections. However, we have to be mindful that patients and family members are a significant part of the contamination equation as well. This article details the efforts by University Health Network (UHN) to develop hand hygiene resources for use with patients and family members at all of UHN's sites.
Director of patient relations for University Health Network, in Toronto, Ontario.
Sharon
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Rogers
D003428:Cross Infection / Q000517:prevention & control; D005190:Family; D006235:Hand Disinfection / Q000379:methods; D063373:Hand Hygiene / Q000379:methods*; D006784:Hospitals, Teaching; D006801:Humans; D007297:Inpatients / Q000193:education; D009864:Ontario; D010045:Outpatients / Q000193:education; D010353:Patient Education as Topic / Q000379:methods