Improving physician hand hygiene compliance using behavioural theories: a study protocol.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Healthcare-associated infections affect 10% of patients in Canadian acute-care hospitals and are significant and preventable causes of morbidity and mortality among hospitalized patients. Hand hygiene is among the simplest and most effective preventive measures to reduce these infections. However, compliance with hand hygiene among healthcare workers, specifically among physicians, is consistently suboptimal. We aim to first identify the barriers and enablers to physician hand hygiene compliance, and then to develop and pilot a theory-based knowledge translation intervention to increase physicians' compliance with best hand hygiene practice.

Design

The study consists of three phases. In Phase 1, we will identify barriers and enablers to hand hygiene compliance by

SUBMITTER: Squires JE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3571966 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature