Internet of Things to Explore Moment 2 of "WHO My Five Moments" for Hand Hygiene.

ABSTRACT: Background: Electronic hand hygiene surveillance systems are developing and considered to be more reliable than direct observation for hand hygiene monitoring. However, none have the capability to assess compliance in complex nursing care. Materials and Methods: We combined two different technologies, a hand hygiene monitoring system (radiofrequency identification, RFID) and a nursing care recorder at the bedside, and we merge their data to assess hand hygiene performance during nursing. Nursing tasks were classified as standard task procedures or aseptic task procedures corresponding to moment 2 among the five moments for hand hygiene recommended by the WHO. All statistical analyses were performed using R, version 3.6.2. For mixed models, the package "lme4" was used. Resu

SUBMITTER: Florea O 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8566730 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature