Stepwise interventions for improving hand hygiene compliance in a level 3 academic neonatal intensive care unit in north India

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OBJECTIVE: We evaluated effect of sequentially introducing four WHO-recommended interventions to promote hand-hygiene compliance in tertiary-care NICU.

STUDY DESIGN: Four dedicated research nurses directly observed doctors and nurses to record success in hand-hygiene opportunities at randomly selected NICU beds and randomly sampled time-slots in four phases (of 4-weeks each): I-Baseline, II-Self-directed learning; III-Participatory learning; IV-Closed-Circuit Television (CCTV); and V-CCTV-plus (with feedback).

FINDINGS: Hand-hygiene compliance changed from 61.8% (baseline) to 77% (end) with overall relative change: 24.6% (95% CI 18, 32; p value= 0.003); compared with preceding phase, relative changes of 21% (15, 28; <0.001), 4% (0, 8; 0.008), -10% (-13, -6; <0.001), and 10% (5, 15; <0.001) during phases II, III, IV, and V, respectively were observed. Rise in hand-hygiene compliance was higher for after-WHO-moments (12.7%; upto 2.5-folds for moment 5, <0.001) compared to before-WHO-moments (5.2%). Educational interventions, feedback and monitoring WHO moments can improve hand-hygiene compliance significantly among health-care providers in NICU.

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ErratumIn: J Perinatol. 2021 Oct 13;:. - PMID 34645955

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2021

Erschienen:

2021

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:41

Enthalten in:

Journal of perinatology : official journal of the California Perinatal Association - 41(2021), 12 vom: 28. Dez., Seite 2834-2839

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Gopalakrishnan, Shridhar [VerfasserIn]
Chaurasia, Suman [VerfasserIn]
Sankar, M J [VerfasserIn]
Paul, V K [VerfasserIn]
Deorari, A K [VerfasserIn]
Joshi, M [VerfasserIn]
Agarwal, R [VerfasserIn]

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Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

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Date Completed 17.02.2022

Date Revised 30.10.2022

published: Print-Electronic

ErratumIn: J Perinatol. 2021 Oct 13;:. - PMID 34645955

Citation Status MEDLINE

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10.1038/s41372-021-01141-3

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NLM328662496