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SUBMITTER: Mo Y
PROVIDER: S-EPMC9044525 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Mo Yin Y Pham Thi Mui TM Lim Cherry C Horby Peter P Stewardson Andrew J AJ Harbarth Stephan S Scott Geoffrey M GM Cooper Ben S BS
Epidemiology and infection 20220321
Hand hygiene is a simple, low-cost intervention that may lead to substantial population-level effects in suppressing acute respiratory infection epidemics. However, quantification of the efficacy of hand hygiene on respiratory infection in the community is lacking. We searched PubMed for randomised controlled trials on the effect of hand hygiene for reducing acute respiratory infections in the community published before 11 March 2021. We performed a meta-regression analysis using a Bayesian mixe ...[more]