Highlights
- •Quick, visual, and practical assessment directly at the workplace.
- •The marked hand rub and UV lamp revealed mistakes, that is, zones without coverage.
- •Only 67 of the 705 participants (9.5%) rubbed both hands correctly.
- •The significant impact of the results on HCWs could improve the quality of their hand hygiene and adherence to protocols.
The aim of this study was to determine the quality of the hand hygiene (HH) technique
of healthcare workers (HCW) in real conditions, without previous education or training.
All 705 participants did the World Health Organization sequence for HH correctly,
but only 9.5% actually achieved the highest rating (ie, all hand areas with hand rub
distribution).
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Publication history
Published online: August 18, 2015
Footnotes
Funding/support: No public or private funding was received for this study.
Conflicts of interest: None to report.
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