Reducing health care-associated infections by implementing a novel all hands on deck approach for hand hygiene compliance

Abstract

Hand hygiene is a key intervention for preventing health care-associated infections; however, maintaining high compliance is a challenge, and accurate measurement of compliance can be difficult. A novel program that engaged all health care personnel to measure compliance and provide real-time interventions overcame many barriers for compliance measurement and proved effective for sustaining high compliance and reducing health care-associated infections.

Keywords: Clostridium difficile; Hand hygiene; health care–associated infections; intervention.