title: The precision of human-generated hand-hygiene observations: a comparison of human observation with an automated monitoring system.
abstract: We compared the observations of nearly 1,400 hand-hygiene-related events recorded by an automated system and by human observers. Observation details differed for 38% of these events. Two likely explanations for these inconsistencies were the distance between the observer and the event and the busyness of the clinic.
authors.affiliation: Department of Biomedical Engineering, College of Engineering, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa 52242, USA.
authors.forename: Deepti
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Sharma
authors.forename: Geb W
authors.initials: GW
authors.lastname: Thomas
authors.forename: Eric D
authors.initials: ED
authors.lastname: Foster
authors.forename: Jaclyn
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Iacovelli
authors.forename: Krista M
authors.initials: KM
authors.lastname: Lea
authors.forename: Judy A
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: Streit
authors.forename: Philip M
authors.initials: PM
authors.lastname: Polgreen
mesh_terms: D000553:Ambulatory Care / Q000592:standards*; D000554:Ambulatory Care Facilities; D016001:Confidence Intervals; D019983:Guideline Adherence / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D006235:Hand Disinfection / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000592:standards*; D006801:Humans; D017053:Infection Control / Q000379:methods; D015588:Observer Variation; D016017:Odds Ratio