Effect of Hand Hygiene on Infectious Disease Risk in the Community Setting: A Meta-Analysis

AUTOR(ES)

Aiello, Allison E.

FONTE

American Public Health Association

RESUMO

To quantify the effect of hand-hygiene interventions on rates of gastrointestinal and respiratory illnesses and to identify interventions that provide the greatest efficacy, we searched 4 electronic databases for hand-hygiene trials published from January 1960 through May 2007 and conducted meta-analyses to generate pooled rate ratios across interventions (N=30 studies).

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