Title: Hand hygiene among clinical medical staff: a survey study.
Abstract: OBJECTIVE To investigate and analyze the hand hygiene status among clinical medical staff to find the problems and propose the improvement measures so as to reduce the incidence of nosocomial infection.METHODS The medical staff were investigated by questionnaire in conjunction with on-site observation of hand hygiene procedures and sampling methods.The irvestigated topics included hand-washing frequency,hand-washing methods,drying methods,related factors of affecting the implementation of hand hygiene,the awareness of hand hygiene knowledge,and the bacteria status in hand-carrying before and after hand-washing and so on.RESULTS 89.5% of the medical staff had accepted the education about the hand hygiene knowledge,97.6% of the medical staff considered washing hands could reduce the hospital infection,and only 1.1% of them considered hand hygiene had no relation to clinical treating result.Before hand washing the general bacterial count was 54.327 CFU/cm2,and after hand washing,the quantity of bacteria in hand-carrying was significantly lower,the general bacterial count was 8.520 CFU/cm2(P0.001).The bacterial counts of aseptic group of hand-washing before and after were lower than the overall level(P0.05),and the bacterial count of the other group showed no difference with the overall level between the hand-washing before and after.About the correct hand washing methods and passing rate of hand-washing,rate of nurse was significantly higher than that of the doctor.CONCLUSIONS There are the problems of neglect of hand hygiene and non-standard hand-washing methods among the clinical medical staff,so it′s very urgent to strengthen training and education,especially for the medical staff from emergency and medical technology departments.The hospital should strengthen education to enhance knowledge and awareness of hand hygiene,to improve hand hygiene compliance of medical staff and to reduce the incidence of nosocomial infection caused by hand contact.
Publication Year: 2010
Publication Date: 2010-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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