Antiseptic technology: access, affordability, and acceptance.

Emerging infectious diseases ·Vol. 7 ·No. 2 ·2001-00-00 ·Pages 231-3

Boyce JM

Abstract

Factors other than antimicrobial activity of soaps and antiseptic agents used for hand hygiene by health personnel play a role in compliance with recommendations. Hand hygiene products differ considerably in acceptance by hospital personnel. If switching from a nonmedicated soap to an antiseptic agent or increased use of an existing antiseptic agent for hand hygiene prevented a few more infections per year, additional expenditures for antiseptic agents would be offset by cost savings.

MeSH Terms

Anti-Infective Agents, Local Hand Disinfection/methods,standards Health Care Costs Health Personnel/psychology Humans Infection Control/economics,methods

Chemicals

Anti-Infective Agents, Local

Authors & Affiliations

1 authors, click to expand affiliations / ORCID

Boyce J M

Hospital of St. Raphael, New Haven, Connecticut, USA. JBoyce@srhs.org

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Article Info

Journal

Emerging infectious diseases

Abbr.

Emerg Infect Dis

ISSN

1080-6040

DOI

10.3201/eid0702.010216

jboyce@srhs.org

Published

2001-00-00

Pages

231-3

Language

English

Region

United States

NLM ID

9508155

PMCID

PMC2631717

Subset

External Links

PubMed source DOI: 10.3201/eid0702.010216 PMC Full Text View journal details

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