Reducing hand recontamination of healthcare workers during COVID-19

Hand hygiene is particularly critical for frontline healthcare workers (HCWs) who are overstretched and for whom this key routine task must be easy to complete and effective.1 However, a neglected aspect of hand hygiene, even in the absence of a global pandemic, is the risk of touching surfaces or o...

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Published inInfection Control & Hospital Epidemiology Vol. 41; no. 7; pp. 870 - 871
Main Authors Gon, Giorgia, Dancer, Stephanie, Dreibelbis, Robert, Graham, Wendy J, Kilpatrick, Claire
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published United States Cambridge University Press 01.07.2020
Subjects
Behavior
Betacoronavirus
Coronavirus Infections - prevention & control
Coronavirus Infections - transmission
Coronaviruses
COVID-19
Cross Infection - prevention & control
Disease control
Disease transmission
Fomites - virology
Hand - virology
Hand Hygiene - standards
Health care
Health Personnel
Hospitals
Humans
Hygiene
Infection Control - methods
Infections
Letter to the Editor
Medical personnel
Nursing
Obstetrics
Pandemics
Pandemics - prevention & control
Patient Safety
Personal hygiene
Pneumonia, Viral - prevention & control
Pneumonia, Viral - transmission
Prevention
Public health
SARS-CoV-2
Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2
United Kingdom > UK
Nigeria
Australia
Zanzibar
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Summary:Hand hygiene is particularly critical for frontline healthcare workers (HCWs) who are overstretched and for whom this key routine task must be easy to complete and effective.1 However, a neglected aspect of hand hygiene, even in the absence of a global pandemic, is the risk of touching surfaces or objects that could recontaminate hands after hand rubbing or washing, whether gloves are worn or not. Avoiding recontamination is implicit in the WHO Hand Hygiene guidelines for health facilities.2 Failure to comply with hand hygiene can result from not washing or rubbing hands at the right time or from subsequent hand or glove recontamination. WHO guidelines on hand hygiene in health care: first global patient safety challenge clean care is safer care.
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ISSN:0899-823X
1559-6834
DOI:10.1017/ice.2020.111