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Hand Hygiene Compliance Rates After an Educational Intervention in a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Craig H. Raskind ,
Sarah Worley ,
Joan Vinski  and
Johanna Goldfarb
Craig H. Raskind*
Affiliation:
Department of Neonatology, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio
Sarah Worley
Affiliation:
Section of Biostatistics, Department of Quantitative Health Sciences, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio
Joan Vinski
Affiliation:
Department of Infection Control, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio
Johanna Goldfarb
Affiliation:
Department of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio
*
9500 Euclid Ave. M31, Cleveland, OH 44195 ([email protected])
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Abstract

An observational study was performed at a level III neonatal intensive care unit to assess the impact of a hand hygiene promotion educational program on rates of compliance with hand hygiene on entrance into the unit. There was an initial improvement in the rate of compliance at 1 month after the intervention (from 89% [168 of 189 opportunities] to 100% [212 of 212 opportunities]; P<.001], but the rate decreased to the baseline rate at 3 months (89% [85 of 96 opportunities]).

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Concise Communications
Information
Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 28 , Issue 9 , September 2007 , pp. 1096 - 1098
Copyright
Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 2007

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