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Barbon, Hazel Chloe Villalobos and Fermin, Jamie Ledesma and Kee, Shaira Limson and Tan, Myles Joshua Toledo and AlDahoul, Nouar and Abdul Karim, Hezerul (2022) Going Electronic: Venturing Into Electronic Monitoring Systems to Increase Hand Hygiene Compliance in Philippine Healthcare. Frontiers in Pharmacology, 13. pp. 1-6. ISSN 1663-9812

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Abstract

Despite the many breakthroughs in the field of public health in the past century, the incidence of healthcare-associated infections (HCAI) remains to be at a high level in both low-middle-income- and high-income-countries across the globe as evidenced by the report from the World Health Organization (WHO) in 2011. Specifically, the Philippines, a low-middle-income country (LMIC), experiences this as well. Despite this, only a few local studies have demonstrated evidence regarding the prevalence of HCAIs, including Navoa-Ng et al. (2011) that reported the prevalence of device-associated infections (DAI), with ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) as the most common. The high statistics has also been attributed to a higher mortality rate, especially among adults confined in intensive care units (ICU) (Navoa-Ng et al., 2011).

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	healthcare-acquired infections, Philippines, hand hygiene compliance, electronic monitoring systems, low-middle-income countries, hand hygiene, monitoring system, infection
Subjects:	R Medicine > RA Public aspects of medicine > RA421-790.95 Public health. Hygiene. Preventive medicine
Divisions:	Faculty of Engineering (FOE)
Depositing User:	Ms Nurul Iqtiani Ahmad
Date Deposited:	06 Apr 2022 01:39
Last Modified:	06 Apr 2022 01:39
URII:	http://shdl.mmu.edu.my/id/eprint/10043

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