Towards objective hand hygiene technique assessment: validation of the ultraviolet-dye-based hand-rubbing quality assessment procedure
| Autor: | Száva Bánsághi, László Szilágyi, Peter Szeremy, Tamas Haidegger, Ákos Lehotsky, György Wéber |
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| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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Microbiology (medical)
medicine.medical_specialty Quality Assurance Health Care Ultraviolet Rays Software tool media_common.quotation_subject 030501 epidemiology Sensitivity and Specificity 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Hygiene Hand rubbing Medicine Humans Hand Hygiene 030212 general & internal medicine Artificial hand media_common Fluorescent Dyes Pixel Staining and Labeling business.industry Quality assessment Optical Imaging Digital imaging Pattern recognition General Medicine Models Theoretical Surgery Infectious Diseases Microbiological sampling Artificial intelligence 0305 other medical science business |
| Zdroj: | The Journal of hospital infection. 97(1) |
| ISSN: | 1532-2939 |
| Popis: | Ultraviolet spectrum markers are widely used for hand hygiene quality assessment, although their microbiological validation has not been established. A microbiology-based assessment of the procedure was conducted. Twenty-five artificial hand models underwent initial full contamination, then disinfection with UV-dyed hand-rub solution, digital imaging under UV-light, microbiological sampling and cultivation, and digital imaging of the cultivated flora were performed. Paired images of each hand model were registered by a software tool, then the UV-marked regions were compared with the pathogen-free sites pixel by pixel. Statistical evaluation revealed that the method indicates correctly disinfected areas with 95.05% sensitivity and 98.01% specificity. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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