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The use of a simple and low cost method to measure hand hygiene compliance in health care services becomes more and more necessary to allow assessment of the quality of care, investments done and interventions effectiveness aiming to increase compliance. Objective: To correlate the indirect method of measuring hand hygiene compliance with the direct method in a neonate intensive care unit at a university public hospital in Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais. Method: Analytical study of hand hygiene direct observation of health care workers and visitors. At the same time, the number of hand hygiene was obtained through the electronic counters device installed inside the alcohol and blend soap dispensers was obtained. Correlation between methods was analyzed using dispersion diagram and regression. Results: 7.324 hand hygiene opportunities were observed during 255 periods of one hour each one. Moderate positive correlation was identified when the dependent variable was percentage of compliance and a strong positive correlation when the dependent variable was the number of hand hygiene. Conclusions: The existence of the concordance and the positive correlation between the two methods means the possibility to use indirect methods to monitor hand hygiene compliance increase or decrease. The monitoring of this important practice of infection prevention allow the health care services to improve quality of care assessment, incentive for performance improvement, outbreak investigation, and infrastructure design.

Correlação entre métodos de mensuração da adesão à higienização das mãos em unidade de terapia intensiva neonatal