A simple and effective approach to patient safety

Author: 
Prasanta Sengupta, Kanwaljit Kaur, Ms Joice George, Ms Mumtaz Rahim VK, Harpreet Singh, and V Srinivas

Prevention of Healthcare associated infections is an important aspect of patient safety. Each and every healthcare establishment and the clinician strive to achieve this goal. Aiming at this key element, a prospective study was carried out in a tertiary care hospital to study the
impact of hand hygiene as a patient safety intervention on the rate of central line associated bloodstream infections (CLABSI). The intervention was a refresher training on hand hygiene with improvement in hand hygiene facilities. 463 patients in pre-intervention and 521 patients in post intervention phase were observed and the difference in both phases was
observed to be statistically significant.

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DOI: 
http://dx.doi.org/10.24327/ijcar.2019.18929.3631
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