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ICAAC 2011: Behavior change literature collection for participants in the MTE session

Hugo — Mon, 19 Sep 2011 14:50:37 +0000

On September 19, 2011, Manuel Mah and Hugo Sax gave an interactive Meet-the-Expert session at ICAAC in Chicago on Behavior change in infection control. They promised to make a literature reference list available with information important to that topic.

Here it is!

References on Healthcare Worker Behavior to Improve Infection Control-3

Hand Hygiene Video most viewed article in New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) for two weeks

Hugo — Sat, 16 Apr 2011 05:19:49 +0000

Our Hand Hygiene video has been the most viewed publication in the New England Journal of Medicine for the last two weeks!!!

New England Journal of Medicine features hand hygiene video

Hugo — Wed, 06 Apr 2011 16:49:47 +0000

Video on hand hygiene in the New England Journal of Medicine. From science to practice, also among the physicians community. And 14’000 hits in the first few days!

Featuring some folks you might recognize from VigiGerme®.

Longtin Y, Sax H, Allegranzi B, Schneider F, Pittet D. Videos in clinical medicine. Hand hygiene. N Engl J Med. 2011 Mar 31;364(13):e24

Teleclass on ‘My five moments’ concept in the WHO series

Hugo — Wed, 06 Apr 2011 16:37:39 +0000

Hugo just gave a tele class lecture on the ‘My five moments for hand hygiene’ concept and its development hosted by Benedetta Allegranzi from WHO.

A great human insight

Hugo — Thu, 16 Sep 2010 18:33:39 +0000

I found this on a door of a famous coffee shop chain. What a great insight in human nature. Question: Does your infection control program take this into account? Both ways I mean?

Human Factors and Ergonomics Society meeting, Sept 27-Oct 1, San Francisco

Hugo — Thu, 16 Sep 2010 16:25:43 +0000

Hugo Sax will attend the HFES meeting in San Francisco. Expect a summary report on infection control relevant highlights in October 2010 on this blog.

Video featured at ICAAC 50th anniversary meeting in Boston

Hugo — Thu, 16 Sep 2010 16:05:28 +0000

Hugo presented the short version of ‘O les mains’ in a talk about Human Factors Engineering as a great opportunity for infection prevention and control at the ICAAC meeting in Boston.

Here are the slides of the talk entitled ‘Human Factors Technology’ in the session ‘New technologies in infection control: What works?’. Human Factors is a guiding principle in the VigiGerme® program: To fiercely and absolutely see the world through the eyes of the user and the system as a whole.

Video availabe in AVI format

Hugo — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 07:17:57 +0000

Just a quick note to tell you that we added the full version of the dance video in AVI format to the Dance Video page for download. Enjoy.

5-5-10 at HUG: People just loved it!!

Hugo — Mon, 31 May 2010 14:27:48 +0000

Adil and the dancers of Les Rythmakers turned the 5-5-10 into a hand hygiene feast. First they visited the ward staff and people had lots of fun learning the basic steps of Ô les mains. Then there was a central dance event. See the video of this event on our Dance Video page yourself. In the end you might see our Director General who danced as well… Enjoy! And thanks to Franck and Bernard for the video (great job!).

If you have photos or video footage of your 5-5-10 event having people dance we would love to upload it for everyone to see. Just leave us a message at our Contact page.

Dance lessons with Adil

Hugo — Mon, 03 May 2010 21:33:24 +0000

Last Wednesday 28 April, Adil of Les Rythmakers, gave dance lessons to a group of non-dancers to prepare the showdown at the University of Geneva Hospitals on the 5-5-10.

We will report on what happened after the event. The hospital Director General promised to appear and participate actively in the dancing event. He did not come to the training lessons, though. We are curious…

Adil promised to teach you too. Maybe not before the 5-5-10, but one day we might have a hand hygiene dance happening around the globe…