Journal article
New technologies to monitor healthcare worker hand hygiene
Clinical Microbiology and Infection, Vol.20(1), pp.29-33
01/2014
DOI: 10.1111/1469-0691.12458
PMID: 24245809
Abstract
Compliance with hand hygiene is a good quality indicator for hospital patient safety programmes. Hand hygiene is a major infection control prevention intervention, but in many medical centres compliance rates are only c. 50%. Given the enormous number of hand hygiene opportunities in hospitals, direct observation to monitor compliance is very inefficient. However, technologies are emerging to obviate the need for direct observation. These new technologies for monitoring hand hygiene compliance are discussed in this article.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- New technologies to monitor healthcare worker hand hygiene
- Creators
- A.R Marra - Instituto Israelita de Ensino e Pesquisa Albert Einstein, Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein, São Paulo, BrazilM.B Edmond - Virginia Commonwealth University Medical Center, Richmond, VA, USA
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Clinical Microbiology and Infection, Vol.20(1), pp.29-33
- Publisher
- Elsevier Ltd
- DOI
- 10.1111/1469-0691.12458
- PMID
- 24245809
- ISSN
- 1198-743X
- eISSN
- 1469-0691
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 01/2014
- Academic Unit
- Internal Medicine
- Record Identifier
- 9983905647702771
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