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  2. Hand washing - Wikipedia

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    The importance of hand washing for human health – particularly for people in vulnerable circumstances like mothers who had just given birth or wounded soldiers in hospitals – was first [95] [non-primary source needed] recognized in the mid 19th century by two pioneers of hand hygiene: the Hungarian physician Ignaz Semmelweis who worked in ...

  3. Hospital-acquired infection - Wikipedia

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    The goal of hand hygiene is to eliminate the transient flora with a careful and proper performance of hand washing, using different kinds of soap, (normal and antiseptic), and alcohol-based gels. The main problems found in the practice of hand hygiene is connected with the lack of available sinks and time-consuming performance of hand washing.

  4. Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care

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    Australia's quality use of medicines (QUM) program, including antimicrobial stewardship; health care-related infection prevention and management efforts, including the National Hand Hygiene Initiative; clinical trial safety and reporting programs; These programs all broadly sit under one specific NSQHS Standard.

  5. Hygiene - Wikipedia

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    The importance of hand washing for human health – particularly for people in vulnerable circumstances like mothers who had just given birth or wounded soldiers in hospitals – was first recognized in the mid 19th century by two pioneers of hand hygiene: the Hungarian physician Ignaz Semmelweis who worked in Vienna, Austria, and Florence ...

  6. Patient safety - Wikipedia

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    The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) is the Federal authority for patient safety and quality of care and has been a leader in pediatric quality and safety. AHRQ has developed Pediatric Quality Indicators (PedQIs) with the goal to highlight areas of quality concern and to target areas for further analysis. [ 122 ]

  7. Quality of life (healthcare) - Wikipedia

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    Early versions of healthcare-related quality of life measures referred to simple assessments of physical abilities by an external rater (for example, the patient is able to get up, eat and drink, and take care of personal hygiene without any help from others) or even to a single measurement (for example, the angle to which a limb could be flexed).

  8. Hand sanitizer - Wikipedia

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    The current evidence that the effectiveness of school hand hygiene interventions is of poor quality. [ 23 ] In a 2020 Cochrane review comparing rinse-free hand washing to conventional soap and water techniques and the subsequent impact on school absenteeism found a small but beneficial effect on rinse-free hand washing on illness related ...

  9. Patient Safety and Quality Improvement Act - Wikipedia

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    Patient Safety and Quality Improvement Act of 2005; Long title: A bill to amend title IX of the Public Health Service Act to provide for the improvement of patient safety and to reduce the incidence of events that adversely effect patient safety. Acronyms (colloquial) PSQIA: Enacted by: the 109th United States Congress: Effective: July 29, 2005 ...