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
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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
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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<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title><jats:p>In >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>