 Hand Hygiene
"Hand Hygiene" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
Practices involved in preventing the transmission of diseases by hand.
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D063373
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| MeSH Number(s) |
E02.547.300 N06.850.670.150
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Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more general than "Hand Hygiene".
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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Hand Hygiene" by people in this website by year, and whether "Hand Hygiene" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 2013 | 1 | 1 | 2 | | 2015 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 2018 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2020 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Hand Hygiene" by people in Profiles.
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Hall JM, Falcon IZ, Elward AM, Daniels EA, Greene SE, Cabler SS, Reich PJ, Storch GA. Petting Zoos as an Unsuspected Source of Pediatric Infections. Pediatr Infect Dis J. 2023 04 01; 42(4):346-349.
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Soares-Weiser K, Lasserson T, Jorgensen KJ, Woloshin S, Bero L, Brown MD, Fischhoff B. Policy makers must act on incomplete evidence in responding to COVID-19. Cochrane Database Syst Rev. 2020 11 20; 11:ED000149.
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Rundle CW, Presley CL, Militello M, Barber C, Powell DL, Jacob SE, Atwater AR, Watsky KL, Yu J, Dunnick CA. Hand hygiene during COVID-19: Recommendations from the American Contact Dermatitis Society. J Am Acad Dermatol. 2020 Dec; 83(6):1730-1737.
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Knepper BC, Miller AM, Young HL. Impact of an automated hand hygiene monitoring system combined with a performance improvement intervention on hospital-acquired infections. Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol. 2020 08; 41(8):931-937.
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Fitzgerald L, Kurtz J, Knepper BC, Reese SM, Miller A, Kleiner C, Young HL. Prepping for Prevention: An Intervention to Optimize Skin Antisepsis and Peri-Operative Antibiotic Prophylaxis. Surg Infect (Larchmt). 2020 Feb; 21(1):48-53.
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Gilmartin H, Saint S, Rogers M, Winter S, Snyder A, Quinn M, Chopra V. Pilot randomised controlled trial to improve hand hygiene through mindful moments. BMJ Qual Saf. 2018 10; 27(10):799-806.
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Branch-Elliman W, Savor Price C, Bessesen MT, Perl TM. Using the Pillars of Infection Prevention to Build an Effective Program for Reducing the Transmission of Emerging and Reemerging Infections. Curr Environ Health Rep. 2015 Sep; 2(3):226-35.
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Fernandez PG, Loftus RW, Dodds TM, Koff MD, Reddy S, Heard SO, Beach ML, Yeager MP, Brown JR. Hand hygiene knowledge and perceptions among anesthesia providers. Anesth Analg. 2015 Apr; 120(4):837-43.
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Tenna A, Stenehjem EA, Margoles L, Kacha E, Blumberg HM, Kempker RR. Infection control knowledge, attitudes, and practices among healthcare workers in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol. 2013 Dec; 34(12):1289-96.
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Michaelsen K, Sanders JL, Zimmer SM, Bump GM. Overcoming patient barriers to discussing physician hand hygiene: do patients prefer electronic reminders to other methods? Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol. 2013 Sep; 34(9):929-34.
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