Abstract
Objective:
The most efficient and most cost effective method for preventing health care associated infections is hand hygiene. Although hand hygiene is the most effective and simple method, compliance rates are very low among health care workers. It was aimed to evaluate the rates of compliance of healthcare workers in a state hospital.
Material and Method:
In this study, totally 112 healthcare workers (31 doctors and 81 nurses) were evaluated with the 5-indication observation method in a period between January and July 2013.
Results:
A total of 754 (65.9%) out of 1.144 cases were resulted in accurate hand washing and hand-rubbing. When the intensive care unit and surgical clinics were evaluated together, it was found that hand hygiene compliance rates were 51.26% in 199 cases and 66.85% in 591 cases for doctors and nurses, respectively.
Conclusion:
Consequently, we think that pre-informed observations are important training instruments for hand hygiene compliance.
Keywords: Hand hygiene, the rate of hand hygiene compliance, informed observations
Copyright and license
Copyright © 2015 The Author(s). This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium or format, provided the original work is properly cited.
