Challenges of hand hygiene in healthcare: the development of a tool kit to create supportive processes and environments.
Hand hygiene compliance by healthcare providers has been difficult to achieve due to diverse environments, work culture, processes and task requirements. Because of this complexity, hand hygiene lends itself well to a human factors analysis in order to design a system that matches human cognitive and physical strengths and makes allowances for human limitations.
Healthcare Human Factors, University Health Network, Toronto, Ontario.
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D005069:Evaluation Studies as Topic; D017408:Guidelines as Topic; D006235:Hand Disinfection; D007722:Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice; D006282:Health Personnel; D006293:Health Promotion / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D006920:Hygiene; D012196:Review Literature as Topic