title: Adherence to hand hygiene in high-risk units of a tertiary care hospital in India.
abstract: To improve the compliance to hand hygiene in our health care workers, 3 hand hygiene awareness weeks have been conducted over the past one-and-a-half years in our hospital. This observational audit conducted from October 2011 to March 2012 was planned to assess the impact of the above awareness drives. Although overall compliance increased significantly in 7 intensive care units from 23.1% to 41.2% (P < .0001), several deficiencies were noticed both in technique used as well as during specific opportunities of hand hygiene.
authors.affiliation: Department of Medical Microbiology, Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh, India. Electronic address: manisha.biswal@gmail.com.
authors.forename: Manisha
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Biswal
authors.forename: Neena Vir
authors.initials: NV
authors.lastname: Singh
authors.forename: Rupinder
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Kaur
authors.forename: Tissamol
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Sebastian
authors.forename: Rinzin
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Dolkar
authors.forename: Suma B
authors.initials: SB
authors.lastname: Appananavar
authors.forename: Gagandeep
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Singh
authors.forename: Neelam
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Taneja
mesh_terms: D019983:Guideline Adherence / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D063373:Hand Hygiene / Q000379:methods*; D006302:Health Services Research; D006801:Humans; D007194:India; D007362:Intensive Care Units; D062606:Tertiary Care Centers
keywords: Compliance; Hand hygiene; ICUs; India; Prerequisites