Hand hygiene compliance and its drivers in long-term care facilities; observations and a survey.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Hand hygiene is an important measure to prevent healthcare-associated infections in long-term care facilities.

Objectives

To evaluate compliance with hand hygiene recommendations by different nursing professionals in long-term care facilities and to investigate determinants potentially influencing hand hygiene and whether these differed between the different cadres of staff.

Methods

We conducted two sub-studies: we measured hand hygiene compliance of 496 professionals in 14 long-term care facilities (23 wards) through direct observation using World Health Organisation's 'five moments of hand hygiene' observation tool. In addition, we performed a survey to examine determinants that may influence hand hygiene and to determine differences between different cad

SUBMITTER: Haenen A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8931571 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature