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ArticleJournal of healthcare engineering2023

Development and Evaluation of BLE-Based Room-Level Localization to Improve Hand Hygiene Performance Estimation.

Kimia Hadian, Geoff Fernie, Atena Roshan Fekr

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Article in Journal of healthcare engineering, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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3 authors.

Kimia HadianThe KITE Research Institute, Toronto Rehabilitation Institute, University Health Network, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.ORCID 0000-0001-5570-4695
Geoff FernieThe KITE Research Institute, Toronto Rehabilitation Institute, University Health Network, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.ORCID 0000-0002-4821-7650
Atena Roshan FekrThe KITE Research Institute, Toronto Rehabilitation Institute, University Health Network, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.ORCID 0000-0001-7658-520X

Funding

CIHR FDN-148450
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Hand hygiene is one of the most effective ways to prevent infection transmission. However, current electronic monitoring systems are not able to identify adherence to all hand hygiene (HH) guidelines. Location information can play a major role in enhancing HH monitoring resolution. This paper proposes a BLE-based solution to localize healthcare workers inside the patient room. Localization accuracy was evaluated using one to four beacons in a binary (entrance/proximal patient zone) or multiclass (entrance/sink/right side of the bed/left side of the bed) proximity-based positioning problem. Dynamic fingerprints were collected from nine different subjects performing 30 common nursing activities. Extremely randomized trees algorithm achieved the best accuracies of 81% and 71% in the binary and multiclass classifications, respectively. The proposed method can be further used as a proxy for caregiving activity recognition to improve the risk of infection transmission in healthcare settings.

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Cross InfectionHand HygieneGuideline AdherenceHealth FacilitiesHealth PersonnelHumans

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PMID36760837
PMCPMC9904895

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