Observation-based evaluation of hand hygiene practices and the effects of an intervention at a public hospital cafeteria.
dc.citation.doi | 10.1016/j.ajic.2010.09.016 | en_US |
dc.citation.epage | 470 | en_US |
dc.citation.issue | 6 | en_US |
dc.citation.jtitle | American Journal of Infection Control | en_US |
dc.citation.spage | 464 | en_US |
dc.citation.volume | 39 | en_US |
dc.contributor.author | Filion, Katie | |
dc.contributor.author | KuKanich, Kate S. | |
dc.contributor.author | Chapman, Ben | |
dc.contributor.author | Hardigree, Megan K. | |
dc.contributor.author | Powell, Douglas A. | |
dc.contributor.authoreid | dpowell | en_US |
dc.contributor.authoreid | kstenske | en_US |
dc.contributor.authoreid | bjchapman | en_US |
dc.date.accessioned | 2012-02-08T21:33:38Z | |
dc.date.available | 2012-02-08T21:33:38Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2012-02-08 | |
dc.date.published | 2011 | en_US |
dc.description.abstract | Background: Hand hygiene is important before meals, especially in a hospital cafeteria where patrons may have had recent contact with infectious agents. Few interventions to improve hand hygiene have had measureable success. This study was designed to use a poster intervention to encourage hand hygiene among health care workers (HCWs) and hospital visitors (HVs) upon entry to a hospital cafeteria. Methods: Over a 5-week period, a poster intervention with an accessible hand sanitizer unit was deployed to improve hand hygiene in a hospital cafeteria. The dependent variable observed was hand hygiene attempts. Study phases included a baseline, intervention, and follow-up phase, with each consisting of 3 randomized days of observation for 3 hours during lunch. Results: During the 27 hours of observation, 5,551 participants were observed, and overall hand hygiene frequency was 4.79%. Hygiene attempts occurred more frequently by HCWs than HVs (P 5 .0008) and females than males (P 5 .0281). Hygiene attempts occurred more frequently after poster introduction than baseline (P 5 .0050), and this improvement was because of an increase in frequency of HV hand hygiene rather than HCW hand hygiene. Conclusion: The poster intervention tool with easily accessible hand sanitizer can improve overall hand hygiene performance in a US hospital cafeteria. | en_US |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/2097/13454 | |
dc.relation.uri | http://www.doi.org/10.1016/j.ajic.2010.09.016 | en_US |
dc.subject | Hand hygiene | en_US |
dc.subject | Infectious disease | en_US |
dc.subject | Cafeteria | en_US |
dc.subject | Sanitizer | en_US |
dc.subject | Poster | en_US |
dc.title | Observation-based evaluation of hand hygiene practices and the effects of an intervention at a public hospital cafeteria. | en_US |
dc.type | Article (author version) | en_US |