Physician report cards and rankings yield long-lasting hand hygiene compliance exceeding 90 %

Volume: 19, Issue: 1
Published: Dec 1, 2015
Abstract
Introduction Hand hygiene is an effective, low-cost intervention that prevents the spread of multidrug-resistant bacteria. Despite mandatory education and reminders, compliance by physicians in our hospital remained stubbornly low. Our objective was to study whether surveillance by our unit coordinator (secretary) paired with regular feedback to chiefs of service would increase physician hand hygiene compliance in the ICU. Method The ICU unit...
Paper Details
Title
Physician report cards and rankings yield long-lasting hand hygiene compliance exceeding 90 %
Published Date
Dec 1, 2015
Volume
19
Issue
1
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