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Association Between Hand Hygiene Compliance and Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Prevalence in a French Rehabilitation Hospital

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 June 2016

Emmanuelle Girou ,
Patrick Legrand ,
Sophan Soing-Altrach ,
Astrid Lemire ,
Céline Poulain ,
Alexandra Allaire ,
Latifa Tkoub-Scheirlinck ,
Steeve Ho Tam Chai ,
Catherine Dupeyron  and
Catherine-Marie Loche
Emmanuelle Girou*
Affiliation:
Unité de Contrôle, Epidémiologic et Prévention de l'lnfection, Créteil, France CHU Chenevier-Mondor, AP-HP, and Faculté de Médecine, Université Paris 12, Créteil, France CeRBEP-INSERM U657, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France
Patrick Legrand
Affiliation:
Laboratoire de Bactériologie, Créteil, France
Sophan Soing-Altrach
Affiliation:
Unité de Contrôle, Epidémiologic et Prévention de l'lnfection, Créteil, France
Astrid Lemire
Affiliation:
Unité de Contrôle, Epidémiologic et Prévention de l'lnfection, Créteil, France Laboratoire de Bactériologie, Créteil, France
Céline Poulain
Affiliation:
Unité de Contrôle, Epidémiologic et Prévention de l'lnfection, Créteil, France
Alexandra Allaire
Affiliation:
Unité de Contrôle, Epidémiologic et Prévention de l'lnfection, Créteil, France
Latifa Tkoub-Scheirlinck
Affiliation:
Unité de Contrôle, Epidémiologic et Prévention de l'lnfection, Créteil, France
Steeve Ho Tam Chai
Affiliation:
Unité de Contrôle, Epidémiologic et Prévention de l'lnfection, Créteil, France Laboratoire de Bactériologie, Créteil, France
Catherine Dupeyron
Affiliation:
Laboratoire de Bactériologie, Créteil, France
Catherine-Marie Loche
Affiliation:
Service de Médecine Physique Réadaptation, Créteil, France
*
Unité de Contrôle, Epidémiologic et Prévention de l'lnfection, CHU Chenevier-Mondor, 51 av du Mai de Lattre de Tassigny, 94000 Créteil, France, ([email protected])
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We simultaneously investigated the prevalence of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) and compliance with hand hygiene in the clinical wards of a French rehabilitation hospital. We found that the rate of hand hygiene compliance observed at the patient's bedside was a strong predictor of MRSA prevalence.

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Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 27 , Issue 10 , October 2006 , pp. 1128 - 1130
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Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 2006

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