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Improving Hand Hygiene Compliance To Reduce Clabsi Rate In Oncology Icu, Lorenzo D. San Pedro
Improving Hand Hygiene Compliance To Reduce Clabsi Rate In Oncology Icu, Lorenzo D. San Pedro
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The aim of this project is to reduce the rate of central line associated blood stream infection (CLABSI) occurrence in oncology ICU by 50% by the last quarter of 2015. This study was conducted in ICU to assess adherence to the facility’s hand hygiene (HH) protocol among the staff nurses and allied healthcare workers. The facility is best known as a non-profit cancer treatment center and designated as a Comprehensive Cancer Center. Evidence showed that hand hygiene is the most effective way of preventing CLABSI, one of the most common types of infection in ICU microsystem. The project utilized The …