Does hand hygiene compliance among health care workers change when patients are in contact precaution rooms in ICUs?
| Autor: | Kirven Gilbert, Robert Gaynes, Edna Fleming, Kali Crosby, Cortney Stafford |
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| Rok vydání: | 2010 |
| Předmět: |
medicine.medical_specialty
Isolation (health care) Attitude of Health Personnel Epidemiology media_common.quotation_subject education Nurses law.invention Patient Isolation law Hygiene Physicians Intensive care Health care Humans Medicine Intensive care medicine media_common Cross Infection Infection Control business.industry Health Policy Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health Intensive care unit Disease control Intensive Care Units Infectious Diseases Contact precautions Emergency medicine Disease prevention Guideline Adherence business Hand Disinfection |
| Zdroj: | American Journal of Infection Control. 38:515-517 |
| ISSN: | 0196-6553 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.ajic.2009.11.005 |
| Popis: | Background Hand hygiene compliance rates among health care workers (HCW) rarely exceed 50%. Contact precautions are thought to increase HCWs' hand hygiene awareness. We sought to determine any differences in hand hygiene compliance rates for HCW between patients in contact precaution and those not in any isolation. Methods In a hospital's medical (MICU) and surgical (SICU) intensive care units, a trained observer directly observed hand hygiene by the type of room (contact precaution or noncontact precaution) and the type of HCW (nurse or doctor). Results The SICU had similar compliance rates (36/75 [50.7%] in contact precaution rooms vs 223/431 [51.7%] compliance in noncontact precaution rooms, P > .5); the MICU also had similar hand hygiene compliance rates (67/132 [45.1%] in contact precaution rooms vs 96/213 [50.8%] in noncontact precaution rooms, P > .10). Hand hygiene compliance rates stratified by HCW were similar with 1 exception. The MICU nurses had a higher rate of hand hygiene compliance in contact precaution rooms than in rooms with noncontact precautions (66.7% vs 51.6%, respectively). Conclusion Compliance with hand hygiene among HCWs did not differ between contact precaution rooms and rooms with noncontact precautions with the exception of the nurses in the MICU. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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