New technologies to monitor healthcare worker hand hygiene.
Compliance with hand hygiene is a good quality indicator for hospital patient safety programmes. Hand hygiene is a major infection control prevention intervention, but in many medical centres compliance rates are only c. 50%. Given the enormous number of hand hygiene opportunities in hospitals, direct observation to monitor compliance is very inefficient. However, technologies are emerging to obviate the need for direct observation. These new technologies for monitoring hand hygiene compliance are discussed in this article.
Instituto Israelita de Ensino e Pesquisa Albert Einstein, Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein, São Paulo, Brazil.
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D003428:Cross Infection / Q000517:prevention & control; D019983:Guideline Adherence; D006235:Hand Disinfection; D063373:Hand Hygiene; D006282:Health Personnel; D006761:Hospitals; D006801:Humans; D017053:Infection Control; D057233:Radio Frequency Identification Device; D058998:Remote Sensing Technology; D059015:Wireless Technology
Compliance; Zigbee; electronic devices; electronic handwash counters; feedback loop; hand hygiene; innovation; positive deviance; wireless technology