 Hand Hygiene
"Hand Hygiene" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
Practices involved in preventing the transmission of diseases by hand.
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D063373
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| MeSH Number(s) |
N06.850.780.200.412
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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Hand Hygiene" by people in UAMS Profiles by year, and whether "Hand Hygiene" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 2019 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2017 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2016 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Hand Hygiene" by people in Profiles over the past ten years.
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Baloh J, Thom KA, Perencevich E, Rock C, Robinson G, Ward M, Herwaldt L, Reisinger HS. Hand hygiene before donning nonsterile gloves: Healthcareworkers' beliefs and practices. Am J Infect Control. 2019 05; 47(5):492-497.
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Lastinger A, Gomez K, Manegold E, Khakoo R. Use of a patient empowerment tool for hand hygiene. Am J Infect Control. 2017 Aug 01; 45(8):824-829.
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Linam WM. Speaking Up: The Next Step to Improving Health Care Worker Hand Hygiene. Hosp Pediatr. 2017 04; 7(4):245-246.
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Rush JL, Flowers RH, Casamiquela KM, Jacks SK, Ibrahim J, Brodell RT. The knock: An adjunct to education for improving outpatient hand hygiene. J Am Acad Dermatol. 2016 Jul; 75(1):231-3.
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Linam WM, Honeycutt MD, Gilliam CH, Wisdom CM, Bai S, Deshpande JK. Successful development of a direct observation program to measure health care worker hand hygiene using multiple trained volunteers. Am J Infect Control. 2016 05 01; 44(5):544-7.
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