Determinants of hand hygiene compliance among nurses in US hospitals: A formative research study.

ABSTRACT: Hand hygiene is the simplest and most effective measure for preventing healthcare-associated infections. Despite the simplicity of this procedure and advances made in infection control, hospital health care workers' compliance to hand hygiene recommendations is generally low. Nurses have the most frequent patient care interactions, and thus more opportunities to practice hand hygiene. As such, it is important to identify and understand determinants of nurses' reported compliance. Formative research was undertaken to assess the potential impact of several unexamined factors that could influence HH among nurses: professional role and status, social affiliation, social norms, and physical modifications to the work environment (as well as institutional factors like safety climate). A survey qu

SUBMITTER: Sands M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7138309 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature