title: Reducing health care-associated infections by implementing a novel all hands on deck approach for hand hygiene compliance.
abstract: Hand hygiene is a key intervention for preventing health care-associated infections; however, maintaining high compliance is a challenge, and accurate measurement of compliance can be difficult. A novel program that engaged all health care personnel to measure compliance and provide real-time interventions overcame many barriers for compliance measurement and proved effective for sustaining high compliance and reducing health care-associated infections.
authors.affiliation: Hospital Epidemiology, University of North Carolina Health Care, Chapel Hill, NC; Division of Infectious Diseases, University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, NC. Electronic address: esickber@unch.unc.edu.
authors.forename: Emily E
authors.initials: EE
authors.lastname: Sickbert-Bennett
authors.affiliation: Hospital Epidemiology, University of North Carolina Health Care, Chapel Hill, NC; Division of Infectious Diseases, University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, NC.
authors.forename: Lauren M
authors.initials: LM
authors.lastname: DiBiase
authors.affiliation: Division of Pediatric Critical Care Medicine, University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, NC.
authors.forename: Tina M
authors.initials: TM
authors.lastname: Schade Willis
authors.affiliation: Division of Nursing, University of North Carolina Health Care, Chapel Hill, NC.
authors.forename: Eric S
authors.initials: ES
authors.lastname: Wolak
authors.affiliation: Hospital Epidemiology, University of North Carolina Health Care, Chapel Hill, NC; Division of Infectious Diseases, University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, NC.
authors.forename: David J
authors.initials: DJ
authors.lastname: Weber
authors.affiliation: Hospital Epidemiology, University of North Carolina Health Care, Chapel Hill, NC; Division of Infectious Diseases, University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, NC.
authors.forename: William A
authors.initials: WA
authors.lastname: Rutala
mesh_terms: D003428:Cross Infection / Q000517:prevention & control*; D019983:Guideline Adherence / Q000458:organization & administration* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D063373:Hand Hygiene / Q000379:methods*; D006282:Health Personnel; D006801:Humans; D017053:Infection Control / Q000379:methods* / Q000458:organization & administration*
keywords: Clostridium difficile; Hand hygiene; health care–associated infections; intervention