Patient empowerment begins with knowledge: consumer perceptions and knowledge sources for hand hygiene compliance rates
| Autor: | Maryanne McGuckin, John Govednik |
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| Rok vydání: | 2014 |
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Male Health Knowledge Attitudes Practice Adolescent Epidemiology Patient Empowerment media_common.quotation_subject Consumer education Compliance (psychology) Young Adult Nursing Hygiene Perception Health care Knowledge sources Medicine Humans media_common Infection Control business.industry Health Policy Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health Middle Aged United States Infectious Diseases Female Patient Participation business Hand Disinfection |
| Zdroj: | American journal of infection control. 42(10) |
| ISSN: | 1527-3296 |
| Popis: | A survey of 1,000 US consumers quantified their knowledge of health care worker hand hygiene compliance, their information sources on hand hygiene rates, and their past behavior of asking health care workers to perform hand hygiene. Sixty-nine percent of respondents believed compliance is above 50%; 17% of respondents had asked a health care worker to perform hand hygiene. Our findings suggest that an organized plan of disclosure about hand hygiene rates may be a way to empower through knowledge. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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