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This document summarizes three sources on the topic of hand hygiene: 1) A 2002 study that found alcohol-based hand rubs are more effective than soap at reducing microbial loads and decreasing nosocomial infections. It recommends continued education on proper hand hygiene. 2) A 2010 study in Tanzania that found alcohol-based hand sanitizers are more effective than handwashing with water alone at reducing disease transmission from hands in areas without reliable water access. 3) A 2014 Australian study that reviewed data from 38 hospitals and found introducing a national hand hygiene initiative significantly reduced healthcare-associated infections.

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This document summarizes three sources on the topic of hand hygiene: 1) A 2002 study that found alcohol-based hand rubs are more effective than soap at reducing microbial loads and decreasing nosocomial infections. It recommends continued education on proper hand hygiene. 2) A 2010 study in Tanzania that found alcohol-based hand sanitizers are more effective than handwashing with water alone at reducing disease transmission from hands in areas without reliable water access. 3) A 2014 Australian study that reviewed data from 38 hospitals and found introducing a national hand hygiene initiative significantly reduced healthcare-associated infections.

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Books:

Bissett, L. (2002). Infection control nursing. Can alcohol hand rubs increase compliance
with hand hygiene? British Journal of Nursing, 11(16), 1072-1077

The search used basic, advanced search along with Boolean method using words: hand hygiene,
alcohol rubs, hand washing, and health care workers. This study focused on hand hygiene, and
how effective alcohol rubs would be to decrease the transfer of microorganisms. Through this
study it reviewed how alcohol rubs decreased the microbial load on hands and that it would be
safer on the hands versus using direct alcohol-based or antibacterial soap. The author was very
blunt in saying that the most effective way to decrease nosocomial infection is through the use of
proper hand hygiene: but the compliance by health care workers is very poor. Various factors are
listed in the cause of healthcare workers not practicing good hand hygiene. One reason stuck out
was that healthcare workers stated that they were not sure when to use the alcohol rubs or
alcohol-based hand solutions. The results from this study focused on the basics ofhand hygiene,
the best practice for using it and the benefits of its use on skin. Alcohol rubs also had larger
numbers in relation to decreasing microorganisms and nosocomial infections in the hospital
setting. The recommendations is for continued education of good hand hygiene, and compliance
among all healthcare workers

Pickering, A. J., Boehm, A. B., Mwanjali, M., & Davis, J. (2010). Efficacy of Waterless
Hand Hygiene Compared with Handwashing with Soap: A Field Study in Dar es Salaam,
Tanzania. The American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 82(2), 270–278.

The advanced search box to find this article in PubMed. This study was researched because more
than 3 billion people don’t have access to water all the time, and the water available to some is
contaminated with various bacteria’s. The study used mothers because many children were
getting ill with different intestinal and respiratory disease. Most of the children thatcontracted
these disease died. Contaminated hands was the leading cause to the cross. transfer of these
diseases. The researcher found that many of the homes only had water for cooking and drinking.
The storage and access of water is by dipping into a storage container and by doing this exposed
the water to disease because the families did not wash their hands before dipping into the water.
In some cases some washed their hands with only water because there was no access to soap.
The end result of the study showed that using the alcohol-based hand sanitizer had the greatest
numbers in decreasing the disease transfer from hands. It recommends using and making
available sanitizers to those countries that are less fortunate to help decrease oreven eradicate the
spread of the intestinal and respiratory diseases.
Barnett, A., Page, K., Campbell, M., Brain, D., Martin, E., Winters, S., Hall, L., Paterson,
D., Graves, N. (2014). Changes in healthcare-associated infections after the introduction of
a national hand hygiene initiative. Healthcare Infection, 19(4), 128-135. doi:

This article which was presented by instructors of college in Australia. This is an example of a
peer reviewed journal and as found using EBSCO database. This article discusses how utilizing
healthcare interventions such as handwashing can reduce risk of infections. This study was
utilized by reviewing 38 hospitals across Australian utilizing risk associated with infections.
Thestudy found that handwashing greatly decreases the risk of spread of infection among
hospitalized patients

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