The impact of workload on hand hygiene compliance: Is 100% compliance achievable?

Hand hygiene compliance decreased significantly when opportunities exceeded 30 per hour. At higher workloads, the number of healthcare worker types involved and the proportion of hand hygiene opportunities for which physicians and other healthcare workers were responsible increased. Thus, care compl...

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Autores principales: Chang, Nai-Chung N., Schweizer, Marin L., Reisinger, Heather Schacht, Jones, Michael, Chrischilles, Elizabeth, Chorazy, Margaret, Huskins, W. Charles, Herwaldt, Loreen
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cambridge University Press 2022
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Concise Communication
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9483712/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33985603
http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/ice.2021.179
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author Chang, Nai-Chung N.
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Jones, Michael
Chrischilles, Elizabeth
Chorazy, Margaret
Huskins, W. Charles
Herwaldt, Loreen
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description Hand hygiene compliance decreased significantly when opportunities exceeded 30 per hour. At higher workloads, the number of healthcare worker types involved and the proportion of hand hygiene opportunities for which physicians and other healthcare workers were responsible increased. Thus, care complexity and risk to patients may both increase with workload.
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spelling pubmed-94837122022-09-29 The impact of workload on hand hygiene compliance: Is 100% compliance achievable? Chang, Nai-Chung N. Schweizer, Marin L. Reisinger, Heather Schacht Jones, Michael Chrischilles, Elizabeth Chorazy, Margaret Huskins, W. Charles Herwaldt, Loreen Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol Concise Communication Hand hygiene compliance decreased significantly when opportunities exceeded 30 per hour. At higher workloads, the number of healthcare worker types involved and the proportion of hand hygiene opportunities for which physicians and other healthcare workers were responsible increased. Thus, care complexity and risk to patients may both increase with workload. Cambridge University Press 2022-09 2021-05-14 /pmc/articles/PMC9483712/ /pubmed/33985603 http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/ice.2021.179 Text en © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 2021 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Chang, Nai-Chung N.
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Chrischilles, Elizabeth
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Huskins, W. Charles
Herwaldt, Loreen
The impact of workload on hand hygiene compliance: Is 100% compliance achievable?
title The impact of workload on hand hygiene compliance: Is 100% compliance achievable?
title_full The impact of workload on hand hygiene compliance: Is 100% compliance achievable?
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title_full_unstemmed The impact of workload on hand hygiene compliance: Is 100% compliance achievable?
title_short The impact of workload on hand hygiene compliance: Is 100% compliance achievable?
title_sort impact of workload on hand hygiene compliance: is 100% compliance achievable?
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9483712/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33985603
http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/ice.2021.179
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