Nosocomial Infection

Sanitizing Hand Gel Increases Handwashing Among Health Care Workers

Published in TB and Outbreaks Week, March 27th, 2001

A study published in the March 2001 issue of the American Journal of Nursing finds that nurses, physicians, and other health care workers were more likely to sanitize their hands when an alcohol-based hand sanitizing gel was available as an alternative to soap and water.

Handwashing has been widely and repeatedly identified as the single most effective means of controlling and preventing nosocomial (hospital-acquired) infections.

The three-phase observational study was conducted over a period of five months in two intensive care units at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) Medical Center. To establish a baseline handwashing (or...

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