Adherence of Health Care Workers to Hand Hygiene at Intensive Care Unit Tikur Anbesa Specialized Hospital, Addis Ababa, 2024/25, Observational Study

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2025-04-15

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Addis Ababa University

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Hand hygiene (HH) is recognized as the single most effective strategy for preventing health care–associated infections. In developing countries, data on hand hygiene compliance is available only for few health-care facilities. This study aimed to assess hand hygiene adherence of health-care workers working at ICU of TASH, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

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Hand hygiene compliance, Direct observation method, Health-care worker, ICU, TASH, WHO

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