[HTML][HTML] Wearing white coats and sitting on beds: why should it matter?

S Hill - Clinical medicine, 2011 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
A healthcare-associated infection (HCAI) is defined as any infection acquired as a
consequence of a person's treatment by a healthcare provider, or which is acquired by a …

What should doctors wear?

KK Turaga, G Bhagavatula - BMJ, 2008 - bmj.com
Clostridium difficile and meticillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) have shifted the
focus of infection prevention from the specialists in infectious diseases to the wider public …

[PDF][PDF] The hospital has a new dress code for its vectors—er, doctors

RL Barbieri - OBG Management, 2008 - cdn.mdedge.com
The hope is that being “bare below the elbow” will have a twofold result: Physicians will
wash their hands more effectively, and nosocomial transmission of such organisms as …

[HTML][HTML] Ditch that white coat

C Kerr - 2008 - Can Med Assoc
Some British physicians call it “chasing sound bites.” Others say the new “bare below the
elbows” policy is simply good infection control. Whatever the opinion, few issues have …

[HTML][HTML] When did the doctors become fomites?

E Tacconelli - Clinical microbiology and …, 2011 - clinicalmicrobiologyandinfection …
The word 'fomites' was introduced early in the 19th century from the Latin fomes, to indicate
objects or materials that are likely to carry infection, such as clothes, utensils and furniture …

The white coat, microbiology service centralization, and combined infection training: what is happening to infection prevention and control?

N Mahida - Journal of Hospital Infection, 2015 - journalofhospitalinfection.com
Tse et al. highlight the consequences of implementing the 2007 UK Department of Health
dress code which colloquially came to be known as 'bare below the elbows', and consisted …

[PDF][PDF] Healthcare-associated infections: what can be done to reduce risk to our patients?

LA Mermel, F FIDSA - Rhode Island Medical Journal, 2010 - rimed.org
1) The intervention with the greatest impact is hand hygiene. 12, 13 Since most patient-to-
patient microbe transmission occurs on the transiently-colonized hands of healthcare …

Bare below the elbows: was the target the white coat?

G Tse, S Withey, JM Yeo… - Journal of Hospital …, 2015 - journalofhospitalinfection.com
Conclusions In this modern era, we should be practising evidence-based medicine. Yet, the
ruling authorities appear to be acting to the contrary by insisting on enforcing policies such …

Healthcare-associated infections: where we came from and where we are headed

D Escobar, D Pegues - BMJ Quality & Safety, 2021 - qualitysafety.bmj.com
Healthcare-associated infections (HCAIs) are those infections acquired by an individual who
is seeking medical care in any healthcare facility, including acute care hospitals, long-term …

Healthcare associated infections

A Voss - BMJ: British Medical Journal (Online), 2009 - search.proquest.com
In Europe about 7% of patients in hospital develop healthcare associated infections. 1 The
associated financial burden of these infections for the United Kingdom is estimated to be£ 1 …