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The Compliance Rates of Hand Hygiene in Intensive Care Unit and Surgical Services at a State Hospital in Turkey

Author(s) -

Serap Süzük Yıldız,

Çiğdem Edis,

Arzu Çalık,

Serpil Akdoğan,

Selma Ünal

Publication year - 2015

Publication title -

türk yoğun bakım derneği dergisi/türk yoğun bakım dergisi

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

eISSN - 2146-6416

pISSN - 2147-267X

DOI - 10.4274/tybdd.77699

Subject(s) - hygiene , medicine , health care , compliance (psychology) , intensive care unit , nursing , medical emergency , family medicine , intensive care medicine , psychology , social psychology , pathology , economics , economic growth

Objective: The most efficient and most cost effective method for preventing health care associated infections is hand hygiene. Although hand hygiene is the most effective and simple method, compliance rates are very low among health care workers. It was aimed to evaluate the rates of compliance of healthcare workers in a state hospital.\udMaterial and Method: In this study, totally 112 healthcare workers (31 doctors and 81 nurses) were evaluated with the 5-indication observation method in a period between January and July 2013.\udResults: A total of 754 (65.9%) out of 1.144 cases were resulted in accurate hand washing and hand-rubbing. When the intensive care unit and surgical clinics were evaluated together, it was found that hand hygiene compliance rates were 51.26% in 199 cases and 66.85% in 591 cases for doctors and nurses, respectively.\udConclusion: Consequently, we think that pre-informed observations are important training instruments for hand hygiene compliance

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