Impact of conducting hand hygiene audits during the COVID-19 pandemic in an intensive care unit at a tertiary care centre in Kerala, India

• Main Authors: Mohandas, Ardra (Author), Valsan, Chithra (Author), Joseph, Sofia (Author), Varghese, Resmi (Author), Baby, Jinsy (Author), Jacob, Shibi (Author), Sani, Nithya (Author), Babu, Shyby (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: German Medical Science GMS Publishing House, 2024-04-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Background: The COVID-19 pandemic era had witnessed an upsurge of healthcare-associated infections (HAI) in COVID intensive care units (ICUs), which can be reduced by following proper hand hygiene (HH) practice. Performing HH auditing in COVID ICUs and providing timely feedback to the stake holders...