title: Effect of varying the number and location of alcohol-based hand rub dispensers on usage in a general inpatient medical unit.
abstract: We sequentially increased the number of wall-mounted alcohol-based hand rub dispensers in a small medical unit to evaluate effects on hand hygiene performance. Above a certain point, addition of more dispensers did not increase hand hygiene frequency, which appeared to be influenced more by location than by total number of dispensers.
authors.affiliation: Infectious Disease and International Health, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, Lebanon, New Hampshire 03756-0001, USA. benjamin.p.chan@hitchcock.org
authors.forename: Benjamin P
authors.initials: BP
authors.lastname: Chan
authors.forename: Karen
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Homa
authors.forename: Kathryn B
authors.initials: KB
authors.lastname: Kirkland
mesh_terms: D006235:Hand Disinfection / Q000379:methods*; D063373:Hand Hygiene / Q000379:methods / Q000592:standards / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D064548:Hand Sanitizers / Q000600:supply & distribution*; D006761:Hospitals / Q000592:standards; D006801:Humans
chemical_list: D064548:Hand Sanitizers