Increased Frequency of Hand Hygiene and Other Infection Prevention Practices Correlates with Reduced Surgical Wound Infection Rates in Spinal Surgery during the COVID-19 Pandemic.
Andrea PernaFrancesco MarucciaFranco Lucio GorgoglioneFelice BarlettaRaffaele VitielloLuca ProiettiFrancesco Ciro TamburrelliDomenico Alessandro SantagadaPublished in: Journal of clinical medicine (2022)
Hand hygiene has always been considered one of the most effective, reproducible and low-cost weapons to deal with hospital infections. The good health habits acquired during the COVID-19 pandemic should be maintained even after the virus is eradicated.
Keyphrases
- low cost
- healthcare
- minimally invasive
- public health
- surgical site infection
- spinal cord
- mental health
- coronary artery bypass
- health information
- risk assessment
- spinal cord injury
- acute coronary syndrome
- coronary artery disease
- human health
- acute care
- percutaneous coronary intervention
- wound healing
- health promotion