Accurate
reporting of
hand hygiene
compliance
in a format
that is easy
to understand
and can
illustrate
compliance
trends should
be the goal
of all hand
hygiene
monitoring
programs.
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all hand hygiene monitoring programs. The data
should be shared with individuals, patient care
units, other patient care specialties, medical staff
and administration. Hand hygiene compliance
reports should be developed with the input of the
providers and leadership who will need to use the
data for improving compliance. The reports should
trend the compliance data and be displayed in
epidemiologically accurate graphs. The data
should include the number of observations, the
expected number of hand hygiene events and the
observed compliance. Each unit or profession or
medical staff should be able to have data with
their specific rates in comparison to others. Plans
for improvement must be generated by the
specific group in discussion with the infection
preventionists and hospital epidemiologists.
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