TY - JOUR
T1 - Implementation of an electronic, secure, web-based application to support routine hand hygiene observation with immediate direct feedback and anonymized benchmarking
AU - Simonet, Simon
AU - Marschall, Jonas
AU - Kuhn, Rolf
AU - Schlegel, Matthias
AU - Kahlert, Christian R.
N1 - Funding Information:
The authors wish to thank the health care workers participating in this study. Funding: This study was not funded.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2022 The Authors
PY - 2022
Y1 - 2022
N2 - A secure web-based electronic tool was developed and implemented to record adherence to hand hygiene during routine care and to provide direct feedback including anonymized benchmarking. It was found suitable for documenting hand hygiene improvements in a local campaign and following rollout to other institutions in 2013, the tool is currently used in >100 hospitals in Switzerland and will play a major part in upcoming national hand hygiene campaigns.
AB - A secure web-based electronic tool was developed and implemented to record adherence to hand hygiene during routine care and to provide direct feedback including anonymized benchmarking. It was found suitable for documenting hand hygiene improvements in a local campaign and following rollout to other institutions in 2013, the tool is currently used in >100 hospitals in Switzerland and will play a major part in upcoming national hand hygiene campaigns.
KW - Hand hygiene adherence
KW - Hospital acquired infection
KW - Infection control
KW - Infection prevention
KW - Intervention
KW - Surveillance
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U2 - 10.1016/j.ajic.2022.04.006
DO - 10.1016/j.ajic.2022.04.006
M3 - Article
C2 - 35537564
AN - SCOPUS:85131579906
JO - American Journal of Infection Control
JF - American Journal of Infection Control
SN - 0196-6553
ER -