Tuyển tập các báo cáo nghiên cứu về y học được đăng trên tạp chí y học Critical Care giúp cho các bạn có thêm kiến thức về ngành y học đề tài: Are alcohol gels better than liquid hand rubs? | Available online http content 11 4 418 Letter Are alcohol gels better than liquid hand rubs Matthias Maiwald1 and Andreas F Widmer2 1 Department of Microbiology Infectious Diseases Flinders University and Flinders Medical Centre Bedford Park Adelaide SA 5042 Australia 2Division of Infectious Diseases Hospital Epidemiology University Hospitals Basel Petersgraben 4 4031 Basel Switzerland Corresponding author Matthias Maiwald Published 6 July 2007 This article is online at http content 11 4 418 2007 BioMed Central Ltd Critical Care 2007 11 418 doi cc5947 See related research by Traore et al. http content 11 3 R52 We read with great interest the study by Traore and coauthors comparing an alcohol hand gel with a liquid hand hygiene formulation in an intensive care unit 1 . The authors reported better user acceptability for the gel. Compliance for both formulations was significantly better P when healthcare workers had easy access to hand rubs but the difference in compliance between the gel and the liquid was not statistically significant. We are concerned that readers may conclude that gels are generally better than and preferable to liquids. The abstract points out that the gel performed significantly better on skin tolerance parameters. Easy access however was the only significant predictor for compliance. The article also mentions superior acceptance of the gel but acceptability scores of and 40 P were presented. Surprisingly compliance was considerably lower compared with an earlier report from the same institution 2 . The two-phase study design may have biased the results with the gel coming second and with improvements noted in the second phase. In any ongoing hand hygiene campaign it is probable that compliance and acceptability will increase with time. Also the second phase occurred during summer -a season less likely to cause dry irritant skin. Previous studies found .
