• Medientyp: E-Artikel
  • Titel: Impact of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic on the adherence to hand hygiene practice in hospitals—Data from a Swiss national surveillance system
  • Beteiligte: Rüfenacht, Susanne; Kohler, Philipp; Kuhn, Rolf; Flury, Domenica; Widmer, Andreas F.; Schlegel, Matthias
  • Erschienen: Cambridge University Press (CUP), 2023
  • Erschienen in: Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • DOI: 10.1017/ice.2022.308
  • ISSN: 0899-823X; 1559-6834
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  • Beschreibung: <jats:title>Abstract</jats:title><jats:p>In &gt;100,000 observations across Swiss acute-care hospitals, hand hygiene (HH) adherence significantly increased during the first coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) wave. However, despite persisting COVID-19 activity, HH adherence returned to prepandemic levels over a 2-year observation period. These results indicate that training and support remains challenging.</jats:p>