Background: Delivery of high quality, at-scale, and sustained services is a major challenge
in the water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) sector, made more challenging by a dearth of …

Background Morbidity and mortality in surgical systems in low-and middle-income countries
(LMICs) remain high compared to high-income countries. Quality improvement processes …

Background Hand hygiene (HH) is central in prevention of health care-associated infections.
In low resource settings, models to improve HH compliance are needed. We implemented a …

Translational research applies scientific techniques to achieve practical outcomes,
connecting pure research and pure practice. Many translational research types have arisen …

Background Quality improvement (QI) methods represent a vehicle for fostering locally
initiated innovation cycles. We partnered with palliative care services from seven diverse …

Importance Hand hygiene adherence monitoring and feedback can reduce health care–
acquired infections in hospitals. Few low-cost hand hygiene adherence monitoring tools …

Background: Hand hygiene (HH) is a cornerstone of programmes to prevent healthcare
associated infections (HAI) globally, but HH interventions are seldom reported from African …

Objetivo Avaliar a adesão à higienização das mãos dos profissionais da saúde atuantes em
uma Unidade de Terapia Intensiva Neonatal e verificar a associação da adesão entre os …

Abstract Objective The Three Delays Model outlines, three common delays that lead to poor
newborn outcomes:(i) recognising symptoms and deciding to seek care;(ii) getting to care …

The goal of infection prevention and control (IPC) and antimicrobial stewardship programs is
to prevent harm to patients and others from healthcare-acquired infection (HAI) and infection …