Search Results - "GOULD, J. D"

Electronic hand hygiene monitoring systems can be well-tolerated by health workers: Findings of a qualitative study by Kelly, D, Purssell, E, Wigglesworth, N, Gould, DJ

“…Background: Electronic hand hygiene monitoring overcomes limitations associated with manual audit but acceptability to health workers varies and may depend on…”
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Routine hand hygiene audit by direct observation: has nemesis arrived? by Gould, D.J, Drey, N.S, Creedon, S

“…Summary Infection prevention and control experts have expended valuable health service time developing and implementing tools to audit health workers' hand…”
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Measuring handwashing performance in health service audits and research studies by Gould, D.J, Chudleigh, J, Drey, N.S, Moralejo, D

“…Summary Handwashing is regarded as the most effective way of controlling healthcare-associated infection. A search of the literature identified 42 intervention…”
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Interventions to improve hand hygiene compliance in patient care by Gould, D.J, Drey, N.S, Moralejo, D, Grimshaw, J, Chudleigh, J

“…Summary Healthcare-associated infection is a major cause of morbidity and mortality. Hand hygiene is regarded as the most effective method of prevention but is…”
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The Hawthorne effect on adherence to hand hygiene in patient care by Purssell, E., Drey, N., Chudleigh, J., Creedon, S., Gould, D.J.

“…Numerous studies demonstrate that the Hawthorne effect (behaviour change caused by awareness of being observed) increases health workers' hand hygiene…”
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Time–frequency chirp-Wigner transform for signals with any nonlinear polynomial time varying instantaneous frequency by Gelman, L., Gould, J.D.

“…The new technique, the time–frequency chirp-Wigner transform has been proposed recently. This technique is further investigated for the general case of higher…”
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Hand hygiene compliance monitoring in anaesthetics: Feasibility and validity by Jeanes, A, Dick, J, Coen, P, Drey, N, Gould, DJ

“…Background: Hand hygiene compliance scores in the anaesthetic department of an acute NHS hospital were persistently low. Aims: To determine the feasibility and…”
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The CleanYourHandsCampaign: critiquing policy and evidence base by Gould, D.J, Hewitt-Taylor, J, Drey, N.S, Gammon, J, Chudleigh, J, Weinberg, J.R

“…Summary Handwashing is considered to be the most effective way of reducing cross-infection. Rates of healthcare-associated infection and the incidence of…”
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What techniques are recommended to undertake procedures that require asepsis? Content and cluster analysis of information supplied international guidance by Purssell, E., Hawker, C., Gallagher, R., Gould, D.J.

“…Health professionals frequently conduct procedures requiring asepsis but there is no definitive evidence-based guidance on how aseptic technique should be…”
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Reduction of arthritis following intra-articular administration of an adeno-associated virus serotype 5 expressing a disease-inducible TNF-blocking agent by Adriaansen, J, Khoury, M, de Cortie, C J, Fallaux, F J, Bigey, P, Scherman, D, Gould, D J, Chernajovsky, Y, Apparailly, F, Jorgensen, C, Vervoordeldonk, M J B M, Tak, P P

“…Background: In the context of preclinical development, we studied the potential of intra-articular gene delivery using a recombinant adeno-associated virus 5…”
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Patients and the public: knowledge, sources of information and perceptions about healthcare-associated infection by Gould, D.J, Drey, N.S, Millar, M, Wilks, M, Chamney, M

“…Summary Statutory bodies provide information about healthcare-associated infection (HCAI) in the UK. Information is also available on National Health Service…”
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Impact of observing hand hygiene in practice and research: a methodological reconsideration by Gould, D.J, Creedon, S, Jeanes, A, Drey, N.S, Chudleigh, J, Morelejo, D

“…Summary Healthcare-associated infection is often spread by direct contact, and the importance of hand hygiene to break the chain of infection is recognised…”
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Photodynamic therapy using meta-tetrahydroxyphenylchlorin (Foscan®) for the treatment of vulval intraepithelial neoplasia by Campbell, S.M., Gould, D.J., Salter, L., Clifford, T., Curnow, A.

“…Summary Background  Photodynamic therapy (PDT) has unique properties which make it suitable for the local treatment of superficial epithelial disorders; it has…”
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Interventions to improve hand hygiene compliance in patient care by Gould, D J, Chudleigh, J H, Moralejo, D, Drey, N

“…Health care-associated infection is a major cause of morbidity and mortality. Hand hygiene is regarded as an effective preventive measure. To assess the short…”
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Photodynamic therapy platform based on localized delivery of photosensitizer by vaterite submicron particles by Svenskaya, Yu. I., Pavlov, A.M., Gorin, D.A., Gould, D.J., Parakhonskiy, B.V., Sukhorukov, G.B.

“…[Display omitted] ⿢Vaterite particles are prospective biocompatible carriers for PDT.⿢The proposed carriers are capable of cellular uptake.⿢Encapsulation…”
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Challenges undertaking procedures requiring asepsis: a qualitative interview study with nurses by Gould, D.J., Courtenay, M., Gallagher, R., Hawker, C., Chudleigh, J., Purssell, E., Drey, N.S.

“…Invasive devices and breaches to skin and mucous membranes increase susceptibility to infection. Nurses frequently undertake procedures requiring asepsis…”
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Leadership and management for infection prevention and control. What do we have and what do we need? by Gould, D.J, Gallagher, R, Allen, D

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Promoting health workers’ ownership of infection prevention and control: using Normalisation Process Theory as an interpretive framework by Gould, D.J, Hale, R, Waters, E, Allen, D

“…Summary Background All health workers should take responsibility for infection prevention and control (IPC). Recent reduction in key reported…”
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Vectors for the treatment of autoimmune disease by Gould, D J, Favorov, P

“…Gene therapy has been applied in a variety of experimental models of autoimmunity with some success. In this article, we outline recent developments in gene…”
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Working practices and success of infection prevention and control teams: a scoping study by Hale, R, Powell, T, Drey, N.S, Gould, D.J

“…Summary Little research has been undertaken on how infection prevention and control (IPC) teams operate and how their effectiveness is assessed. This review…”
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