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New technologies to monitor healthcare worker hand hygiene.
Clin Microbiol Infect. 2013 Nov 18;
Authors: Marra AR, Edmond MB
Abstract
Compliance with hand hygiene is a good quality indicator for hospital patient safety programs. Hand hygiene is a major infection control prevention intervention, but in many medical centers compliance rates are only approximately fifty percent. Given the enormous number of hand hygiene opportunities in hospitals, direct observation to monitor compliance is very inefficient. However, technologies are emerging to obviate the need for direct observation. These new technologies for monitoring hand hygiene compliance are discussed in this manuscript. This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved.
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