A multifaceted hospital-wide intervention increases hand hygiene compliance
| Autor: | H Engelbrecht, H McDonald, Bhavna Patel, V Morris, W Smythe |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
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0301 basic medicine
medicine.medical_specialty Hand washing media_common.quotation_subject 030106 microbiology Psychological intervention MEDLINE South Africa 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Hygiene Intervention (counseling) Health care Medical Staff Hospital medicine Humans Infection control Hand Hygiene 030212 general & internal medicine media_common Cross Infection Infection Control business.industry General Medicine Hospitals Public hospital Physical therapy Guideline Adherence business |
| Zdroj: | SAMJ: South African Medical Journal, Volume: 106, Issue: 4, Pages: 335-341, Published: APR 2016 South African Medical Journal; Vol 106, No 4 (2016); 335-341 |
| ISSN: | 2078-5135 |
| Popis: | Background. Hand hygiene is an important and basic practice that should be used by all healthcare staff to protect both themselves and their patients against infection. Unfortunately hand hygiene compliance remains poor. Objective. To show an improvement in hand hygiene compliance using a multifaceted approach. Methods. This was a quasiexperimental pre-post intervention study design with a number of standardised interventions to promote hand hygiene. The World Health Organization hand hygiene multimodal (five-step) intervention approach was used. The study ran from June 2015 to August 2015 in 11 selected wards of a 975-bed tertiary and quaternary care public hospital (Groote Schuur Hospital, Cape Town, South Africa). The outcome was to assess improvement in hand hygiene compliance monthly over the 3 months, compared with non-intervention wards and compared with the wards’ own performance measured in 2014. The study included both descriptive and analytical components. Results. Post intervention, hand hygiene compliance showed a statistically significant improvement for before patient contact from 34% in 2014 to 76% in 2015 ( p |
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