Impact of COVID-19 on hospital hand hygiene performance: a multicentre observational study using group electronic monitoring.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Reliable reports on hand hygiene performance throughout the COVID-19 pandemic are lacking as most hospitals continue to rely on direct observation to measure this quality indicator. Using group electronic hand hygiene monitoring, we sought to assess the impact of COVID-19 on adherence to hand hygiene.

Methods

Across 12 Ontario hospitals (5 university and 7 community teaching hospitals), a group electronic hand hygiene monitoring system was installed before the pandemic to provide continuous measurement of hand hygiene adherence across 978 ward and 367 critical care beds. We performed an interrupted time-series study of institutional hand hygiene adherence in association with a COVID-19 inpatient census and the Ontario daily count of COVID-19 cases during a baselin

SUBMITTER: Williams V 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8687486 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Oct-Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature