Hand Hygiene Among Health-care Workers Improved in Presence of Auditors

Healthcare workers maintained three times higher rates of hand hygiene in presence of auditors compared to when there were no auditors present, found in a study in a major Canadian acute care hospital. The study, titled, "Quantification of the Hawthorne effect in hand hygiene compliance monitoring using an electronic monitoring system: a retrospective cohort study," published today on-line in the iBMJ Quality (and) Safety Journal/i, by first author Dr. Jocelyn ...

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