Everybody hands-on to avoid ESKAPE: effect of sustained hand hygiene compliance on healthcare-associated infections and multidrug resistance in a paediatric hospital.
CONCLUSIONS: A multimodal hand hygiene programme in a paediatric hospital in a middle-income country was effective in improving adherence and reducing HCAIs, CLABSIs and MDR-ESKAPE bloodstream infections. Sustaining hand hygiene adherence at a level of >60 % for one year limited MRSA clonal transmission.
PMID: 30372411 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Journal of Medical Microbiology - Category: Microbiology Authors: De la Rosa-Zamboni D, Ochoa SA, Laris-González A, Cruz-Córdova A, Escalona-Venegas G, Pérez-Avendaño G, Torres-García M, Suaréz-Mora R, Castellanos-Cruz C, Sánchrez-Flores YV, Vázquez-Flores A, Águila-Torres R, Parra-Ortega I, Klünder-Klünder M Tags: J Med Microbiol Source Type: research
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