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| Title |
Improving physician hand hygiene compliance using behavioural theories: a study protocol
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|---|---|
| Published in |
Implementation Science, February 2013
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| DOI | 10.1186/1748-5908-8-16 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Janet E Squires, Kathryn N Suh, Stefanie Linklater, Natalie Bruce, Kathleen Gartke, Ian D Graham, Alan Karovitch, Joanne Read, Virginia Roth, Karen Stockton, Emma Tibbo, Kent Woodhall, Jim Worthington, Jeremy M Grimshaw |
| Abstract |
Healthcare-associated infections affect 10% of patients in Canadian acute-care hospitals and are significant and preventable causes of morbidity and mortality among hospitalized patients. Hand hygiene is among the simplest and most effective preventive measures to reduce these infections. However, compliance with hand hygiene among healthcare workers, specifically among physicians, is consistently suboptimal. We aim to first identify the barriers and enablers to physician hand hygiene compliance, and then to develop and pilot a theory-based knowledge translation intervention to increase physicians' compliance with best hand hygiene practice. |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 12 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 3 | 25% |
| Canada | 1 | 8% |
| Israel | 1 | 8% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 8% |
| Unknown | 6 | 50% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 9 | 75% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 2 | 17% |
| Science communicators (journalists, bloggers, editors) | 1 | 8% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 212 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United Kingdom | 3 | 1% |
| United States | 1 | <1% |
| Canada | 1 | <1% |
| Unknown | 207 | 98% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Master | 47 | 22% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 28 | 13% |
| Researcher | 27 | 13% |
| Student > Bachelor | 21 | 10% |
| Other | 15 | 7% |
| Other | 35 | 17% |
| Unknown | 39 | 18% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Medicine and Dentistry | 63 | 30% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 41 | 19% |
| Social Sciences | 19 | 9% |
| Psychology | 7 | 3% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 4 | 2% |
| Other | 26 | 12% |
| Unknown | 52 | 25% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 9. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 13 February 2023.
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#3,854,857
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Outputs from Implementation Science
#759
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#40,606
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Outputs of similar age from Implementation Science
#16
of 36 outputs
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