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Alcohol-based surgical hand preparation: translating scientific evidence into clinical practice

Overview of attention for article published in Antimicrobial Resistance & Infection Control, July 2018
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Title
Alcohol-based surgical hand preparation: translating scientific evidence into clinical practice
Published in
Antimicrobial Resistance & Infection Control, July 2018
DOI 10.1186/s13756-018-0372-7
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Gilberto G. Gaspar, Mayra G. Menegueti, Ana Elisa R. Lopes, Roberto O. C. Santos, Thamiris R. de Araújo, Aline Nassiff, Lécio R. Ferreira, Maria Eulalia L. V. Dallora, Silvia R. M. S. Canini, Fernando Bellissimo-Rodrigues

Abstract

Although alcohol-based surgical hand preparation offers potential advantages over the traditional surgical scrubbing technique, implementing it may be challenging due to resistance of surgeons in changing their practice. We aimed to implement alcohol-based surgical hand preparation in the hospital setting evaluating the impact of that on the quality and duration of the procedure, as well as on the prevention of surgical site infections. A quasi-experimental study conducted at a tertiary-care university hospital from April 01 to November 01, 2017. Participants were cardiac and orthopedic surgical teams (n = 56) and patients operated by them (n = 231). Intervention consisted of making alcohol-based handrub available in the operating room, convincing and training surgical teams for using it, promoting direct observation of surgical hand preparation, and providing aggregated feedback on the quality of the preparation. The primary study outcome was the quality of the surgical hand preparation, inferred by the compliance with each one of the steps predicted in the World Health Organization (WHO) technique, evaluated through direct observation. Secondary study outcome was the patient's individual probability of developing surgical site infection in both study periods. We used the Wilcoxon for paired samples and McNemar's test to assess the primary study outcome and we build a logistic regression model to assess the secondary outcome. We observed 534 surgical hand preparation events. Among 33 participants with full data available for both study periods, we observed full compliance with all the steps predicted in the WHO technique in 0.03% (1/33) of them in the pre-intervention period and in 36.36% (12/33) of them in the intervention period (OR:12.0, 95% CI: 2. 4-59.2, p = 0.002). Compared to the pre-intervention period, the intervention reduced the duration of the preparation (4.8 min vs 2.7 min, respectively; p < 0.001). The individual risk of developing a surgical site infection did not significantly change between the pre-intervention and the intervention phase (Adjusted RR = 0.66; 95% CI 0. 16-2.70, p = 0.563). Our results demonstrate that, when compared to the traditional surgical scrub, alcohol-based surgical hand preparation improves the quality and reduces the duration of the preparation, being at least equally effective for the prevention of surgical site infections.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Unknown 88 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Bachelor 17 19%
Student > Master 10 11%
Student > Postgraduate 7 8%
Researcher 5 6%
Student > Ph. D. Student 5 6%
Other 15 17%
Unknown 29 33%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Nursing and Health Professions 22 25%
Medicine and Dentistry 16 18%
Veterinary Science and Veterinary Medicine 4 5%
Psychology 3 3%
Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science 3 3%
Other 11 13%
Unknown 29 33%
Attention Score in Context

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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 20. 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 03 October 2018.
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#1,883,795
of 25,377,790 outputs
Outputs from Antimicrobial Resistance & Infection Control
#199
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Outputs of similar age
#38,252
of 339,646 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Antimicrobial Resistance & Infection Control
#11
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