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01-12-2015 | Oral presentation
Effectiveness after 5 years of the who hand hygiene promotion strategy to reduce health-care-associated infections at Hung Vuong Hospital, Vietnam
Authors:
PT Hang, TTT Hang, DPP Anh, W Zingg, D Pittet
Published in:
Antimicrobial Resistance & Infection Control
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Special Issue 1/2015
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Excerpt
Hung Vuong hospital (HVH) is a 900 bed maternity hospital in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, with at least 40’000 deliveries per year. In 2009, at Hung Vuong hospital (HVH), hand hygiene compliance among healthcare staff was low (8%) while the rates of neonatal hospital-acquired infections (HAIs) were quite high (15.7%). There was the need for promoting hand hygiene using the WHO strategy to improve staff compliance and possibly reduce HAIs. …