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Aim: The purpose of this descriptive study is to describe relationship between hand hygiene compliance and perception of patient safety culture amongst inpatient nurses at a tertiary care hospital in the Middle East. Methods: A sample of approximately 215 inpatient nurses who have completed a recent patient safety culture survey in October 2018 was retrospectively reviewed. In addition, hand hygiene observations specific for inpatient nurses from months of August until October 2018 was reviewed. Pearson correlation tests were used to assess statistical relationship between scores for hand hygiene compliance and patient safety survey as well hand hygiene compliance and individual patient safety composites.Results: There were no relationships found between hand hygiene compliance score and perception of patient safety culture amongst inpatient nurses. There was substantial variation for each patient safety composites, with a range of 29.51% to 76.49%. The highest ratings were Teamwork within hospital units (76.49%), Organizational learning-continuous improvement (70.72%), Feedback and communication about error (67.53%), Frequency of events reporting (67.73%) and Teamwork across hospital units (61.03%). Key words: Hand Hygiene Compliance; Safety Culture; Perception of Safety Culture. |
