Sustaining compliance with hand hygiene when resources are low: A quality improvement report.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Sustainability of hand hygiene is challenging in low resource settings. Adding ownership and goal setting to the WHO-5 multimodal intervention may help sustain high compliance.

Aim

To increase and sustain compliance of nursing and medical staff with hand hygiene in a tertiary referral center with limited resources.

Methods

A quality improvement initiative was conducted over two years (2016-2018). After determining baseline compliance rates, the WHO-5 multimodal intervention was implemented with staff education and training, system change, hospital reminders, direct observation and feedback, and hospital safety climate. Additionally, the medical staff was responsible for continuous surveillance of compliance (ownership) until rates above 90% were achieved an

SUBMITTER: Abou Mrad Z 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7608919 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature