Study: http://www.ajicjournal.org/article/S0196-6553(14)01328-5/abstract

Systematic qualitative literature review of health care workers’ compliance with hand hygiene guidelines

In this podcast Barrie Tyner speaks with Infection Prevention and Control researcher and Health Protection lecture Maura Smiddy from UCC, Ireland. She is the lead author on a systematic review on health care workers’ compliance with hand hygiene guidelines guide. The study was published in the American Journal of Infection Control December 2015 breaks ground by taking a qualitative approach to tease out the barriers and influences to optimal compliance.

Also in the podcast Maura talks about the upcoming Safe Patient Care conference which this year will have a strong focus on healthcare workers involved in the delivery of patient care in residential and long term settings. This years conference is at the Brookfield Health Science Building 1st & 2nd Sep 2016

Links to information mentioned in the podcast:

Safe Patient Care conference 2016: https://goo.gl/MdiLDMRegistration: Jennifer Coughlan / [email protected] twitter: https://twitter.com/SPC2016Cork#SafePatientCare

Maura Smiddy featured in the Infection Control Today: http://goo.gl/BgdApU

WHO multimodal hand hygiene improvement strategy: http://apps.who.int/iris/handle/10665/70030