Evaluation of the national Cleanyourhands campaign to reduce Staphylococcus aureus bacteraemia and Clostridium difficile infection in hospitals in England and Wales by improved hand hygiene: four year, prospective, ecological, interrupted time series study

Objective To evaluate the impact of the Cleanyourhands campaign on rates of hospital procurement of alcohol hand rub and soap, report trends in selected healthcare associated infections, and investigate the association between infections and procurement

The Feedback Intervention Trial (FIT)--improving hand-hygiene compliance in UK healthcare workers: a stepped wedge cluster randomised controlled trial.

Achieving a sustained improvement in hand-hygiene compliance is the WHO's first global patient safety challenge. There is no RCT evidence showing how to do this. Systematic reviews suggest feedback is most effective and call for long term well designed RCTs, applying behavioural theory to intervention design to optimise effectiveness

Hydrophobic plastics films synthesis by mean of agaroid acylation with lauroyl chloride in the N,N-dimethylacetamide homogeneous system

International audienceThe synthesis of hydrophobic plastic films was performed by acylation of agaroids with lauroyl chloride in the N,N-dimethylacetamide homogeneous system. All the plastic films were characterized by FT-IR spectroscopy and their degrees of substitution (DS) was deduced from their 1H-NMR spectra. In addition, thermomechanical feature of plastic films were analyzed and compared to those obtained from other kinds of hydrophobic plastic films. Latin square design of experiments helped us to determine optimized experimental conditions and identify the most important factors. Hence, mild conditions of acylation (90∘C, 1 eq/OH of lauroyl chloride, 1 eq/OH of 4-dimethylaminopyridine, 5,min) led to the production of highly substituted plastic films (DS = 3.62; maximum 4) with a high weight yield (211%) displaying mechanical properties close to polyethylene low density

Estimated relative change in soap procurement on ITUs for 0, 1, 2, 3, or 4 forms returned in any one month compared to the compliance prior to randomisation.

<p>Estimated relative change in soap procurement on ITUs for 0, 1, 2, 3, or 4 forms returned in any one month compared to the compliance prior to randomisation.</p

Estimated relative change (95% CI) in liquid soap procurement by type of ward (intention-to-treat analysis).

<p>Estimated relative change (95% CI) in liquid soap procurement by type of ward (intention-to-treat analysis).</p

Hand-hygiene compliance in ITUs (upper panel) and ACE wards (lower panel): Per-protocol analysis.

<p>Hand-hygiene compliance in ITUs (upper panel) and ACE wards (lower panel): Per-protocol analysis.</p