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Is Compliance with Hand Disinfection in the Intensive Care Unit Related to Work Experience?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Danilo Teixeira Noritomi ,
Marialuisa Chierego ,
Bauduin Byl ,
Nicola Menestrina ,
Tiziana Carollo ,
Marc Struelens  and
Jean-Louis Vincent
Danilo Teixeira Noritomi
Affiliation:
Departments of Intensive Care, Erasme Hospital, Free University of Brussels, Belgium
Marialuisa Chierego
Affiliation:
Departments of Intensive Care, Erasme Hospital, Free University of Brussels, Belgium
Bauduin Byl
Affiliation:
Infection Control, Erasme Hospital, Free University of Brussels, Belgium
Nicola Menestrina
Affiliation:
Departments of Intensive Care, Erasme Hospital, Free University of Brussels, Belgium
Tiziana Carollo
Affiliation:
Departments of Intensive Care, Erasme Hospital, Free University of Brussels, Belgium
Marc Struelens
Affiliation:
Microbiology, Erasme Hospital, Free University of Brussels, Belgium
Jean-Louis Vincent*
Affiliation:
Departments of Intensive Care, Erasme Hospital, Free University of Brussels, Belgium
*
Department of Intensive Care, Erasme University Hospital, Route de Lennik, 808, B-1070 Brussels, Belgium ([email protected])
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Abstract

The performance of hand disinfection by staff in a 31-bed department of intensive care was monitored. During 32 hours of observation, 727 opportunities for hand disinfection were observed, and the compliance rate was 27.9%. The level of work experience was not correlated with hand disinfection compliance rates.

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Concise Communications
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Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 28 , Issue 3 , March 2007 , pp. 362 - 364
Copyright
Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 2007

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