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Article: Monitor hand hygiene to reach 90% compliance.
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- Hospital Employee Health
- Article date:
- May 1, 2008
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Monitor hand hygiene to reach 90% compliance
Other IC approach still needed to reduce infections
As concern grows over antibiotic-resistant organisms, health care workers never have been under greater scrutiny for their compliance with hand hygiene.
It is not an infectious disease cure-all. In fact, one recent study failed to show a decrease in infection rates with a rise in hand hygiene,.sup.1 but programs that use periodic monitoring and feedback to attain very high rates of compliance -- 80% or higher -- are reporting that hand hygiene can have a significant impact on the spread of hospital-based infections.
"I think it's extremely ...