Despite of the fact that rehabilitation centre used the most ABHR, pocket-sized containers were not available in these LTCFs.
ABHR has a broad antimicrobial spectrum, short action time (20 30 s), good skin tolerability and can be made easily accessible, including in the form of pocket-sized containers.
Although the availability of ABHR alone is not sufficient to improve hand hygiene practices, several studies have demonstrated the positive influence of the use of pocket-sized containers and point of care ABHR on compliance with hygienic handrubbing [ 13, 28, 29].
And then there are the salt accessories: everything from salt keepers (especially popular are the pocket-sized wooden containers, engraved with the company logo and well suited for a picnic hamper) to salt mills, spoons and pestles.
The use of pocket-sized ABHR containers as a part of a multifaceted hand hygiene promotion strategy was effective to increase adherence and decrease HAIs incidence rates by 40 45 % in LTCFs with an elderly population [ 30– 30].
However, both types of hand hygiene agents as well as poster reminders were widely available, and most LTCFs provided pocket-sized ABHR containers to HCWs, and hand hygiene training sessions were organized in the previous year.
83.9 % of participating LTCFs (n = 193) provided pocket-sized ABHR containers for their HCWs in 2013, especially in the general nursing homes (n = 157, 81.3 %) followed by LTCFs for the physically disabled people (n = 21, 10.9 %) and psychiatric LTCFs (n = 11, 5.7 %).
You can bring in whatever you want, as long as it fits inside a pocket sized container.
Pocket-sized 36-shot cake.
Very attractive leaf from a pocket-sized psalter.
The Guinness Book, though, was a pocket-sized paperback.
