Observational studyAmerican journal of infection control2021
Light-guided nudging and data-driven performance feedback improve hand hygiene compliance among nurses and doctors.
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- Effect of individual feedback on hand hygiene compliance in nursing homes.Infection prevention in practice · 2026Article
- Optimizing military mental health and stress resilience training through the lens of trainee preferences: A conjoint analysis approach.Military psychology : the official journal of the Division of Military Psychology, American Psychological Association · 2025Article
- Effects of data-driven feedback on nurses' and physicians' hand hygiene in hospitals - a non-resource-intensive intervention in real-life clinical practice.Infection prevention in practice · 2023Article
- Factors associated with better alcohol hand rub in 2020. Results from the French national audit "Pulpe'friction".Journal of infection prevention · 2023Article
- Best practices for implementing biosafety inspections in a clinical laboratory: Evidence from a multi-site experimental study.PloS one · 2023Article
- Internet of things in healthcare for patient safety: an empirical study.BMC health services research · 2022Article
- Challenges to the infection control team during coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic in a quaternary-care medical center in Saudi Arabia.Infection control and hospital epidemiology · 2022Article
- Nudging healthcare professionals to improve treatment of COVID-19: a narrative review.BMJ open quality · 2021Review
- Analysis of social interactions and risk factors relevant to the spread of infectious diseases at hospitals and nursing homes.PloS one · 2021Observational
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Abstract
backgroundEvidence-based practices to increase hand hygiene compliance (HHC) among health care workers are warranted. We aimed to investigate the effect of a multimodal strategy on HHC.
methodsDuring this 14-month prospective, observational study, an automated monitoring system was implemented in a 29-bed surgical ward. Hand hygiene opportunities and alcohol-based hand rubbing events were measured in patient and working rooms (medication, utility, storerooms, toilets). We compared baseline HHC of health care workers across periods with light-guided nudging from sensors on dispensers and data-driven performance feedback (multimodal strategy) using the Student's t test.
resultsThe doctors (n = 10) significantly increased their HHC in patient rooms (16% vs 42%, P< .0001) and working rooms (24% vs 78%, P= .0006) when using the multimodal strategy. The nurses (n = 26) also increased their HHC significantly from baseline in both patient rooms (27% vs 43%, P = .0005) and working rooms (39% vs 64%, P< .0001). The nurses (n = 9), who subsequently received individual performance feedback, further increased HHC, compared with the period when they received group performance feedback (patient rooms: 43% vs 55%, P< .0001 and working rooms: 64% vs 80%, P< .0001).
conclusionsHHC of doctors and nurses can be significantly improved with light-guided nudging and data-driven performance feedback using an automated hand hygiene system.
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