Objectives To explore perceptions and unconscious psychological processes underlying
handwashing behaviours of intensive care nurses, to implement organisational innovations …

Aim Health care–associated infections along with antibiotic resistance are a leading risk for
patient safety in intensive care units. Hygienic hand disinfection is still regarded as the most …

Aim The purpose of this study was to explore nurses' perceptions of reasons for persistent
low rates in hand hygiene compliance in the Critical Care Unit and their recommendations …

Background Improving hand hygiene (HH) compliance is one of the most important, but
elusive, goals of infection control. The purpose of this study was to use the capability (C) …

Aim Evaluate the intensive care acquired infections incidence and the change over time in
infection practices in one intensive care unit. Design We used an action research approach …

Background The present research is a qualitative one aiming to determine factors affecting
hand-hygiene behavior of the nursing staff in Shariati Hospital of Tehran, Iran. Methods This …

The primary purpose of this quasi-experimental research is to observe health care workers'
compliance with hand-hygiene guidelines during patient care in an intensive care unit in …

Aims: a) To investigate the health care workers' hand hygiene compliance rates in the
intensive care unit (ICU), b) to assess reasons for non-compliance and c) to study the …

Background Hand hygiene compliance among healthcare workers (HCWs) in intensive care
units (ICUs) is disconcertingly low. Aim To identify the effective intervention (s) for increasing …

Objectives: To synthesize the literature describing interventions to improve hand hygiene in
ICUs, to evaluate the quality of the extant research, and to outline the type, and efficacy, of …