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A Randomized Trial to Determine the Impact of an Educational Patient Hand-Hygiene Intervention on Contamination of Hospitalized Patient’s Hands with Healthcare-Associated Pathogens

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 January 2017

Venkata C. K. Sunkesula ,
Sirisha Kundrapu ,
Shanina Knighton ,
Jennifer L. Cadnum  and
Curtis J. Donskey
Venkata C. K. Sunkesula
Affiliation:
Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, Ohio
Sirisha Kundrapu
Affiliation:
Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, Ohio University Hospitals, Case Medical Center, Cleveland, Ohio
Shanina Knighton
Affiliation:
Department of Nursing, Louis Stokes Veterans’ Affairs Medical Center, Cleveland, Ohio Case Western Reserve University, School of Nursing, Cleveland, Ohio
Jennifer L. Cadnum
Affiliation:
Research Service, Louis Stokes Veterans’ Affairs Medical Center, Cleveland, Ohio
Curtis J. Donskey*
Affiliation:
Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, Ohio Geriatric Research Education and Clinical Center, Louis Stokes Veterans’ Affairs Medical Center, Cleveland, Ohio
*
Address correspondence to Curtis J. Donskey, MD, Geriatric Research, Education, and Clinical Center, Cleveland Veterans’ Affairs Medical Center, 10701 East Boulevard, Cleveland, Ohio 44106 (curtisd123@yahoo.com).
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Abstract

We conducted a non-blinded randomized trial to determine the impact of a patient hand-hygiene intervention on contamination of hospitalized patients’ hands with healthcare-associated pathogens. Among patients with negative hand cultures on admission, recovery of pathogens from hands was significantly reduced in those receiving the intervention versus those receiving standard care.

Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol 2017;38:595–597

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Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 38 , Issue 5 , May 2017 , pp. 595 - 597
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© 2017 by The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America. All rights reserved 

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