Handrub dispensers per acute care hospital bed: a study to develop a new minimum standard.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Accessibility to alcohol-based handrub (ABHR) dispenser is crucial to improve compliance to hand hygiene (HH), being offered as wall-mounted dispensers (ABHR-Ds), and/or pocket bottles. Nevertheless, information on the distribution and density of ABHR-Ds and their impact on HH have hardly been studied. Institutions such as the World Health Organisation or the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention do not provide guidance. The Robert-Koch-Institute (RKI) from Germany recommends an overall density of > 0.5 dispensers per patient bed. We aimed to investigate current conditions in hospitals to develop a standard on the minimal number of ABHR-D.

Methods

Between 07 and 09/2019, we applied a questionnaire to 178 hospitals participating in the Swissnoso National Surve

SUBMITTER: Kuster S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8206889 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature