Highlights
- •Healthcare worker recall of hand hygiene audit.
- •Estimates potential bias in hand hygiene observations.
- •Cost effective approach to determine anonymity of hand hygiene observers.
Interviewed health care workers to determine whether they had noticed a silent hand
hygiene observer, thereby determining the legitimacy of the silent observers. Data
supported the observers were typically unseen, and potential observer bias had a negligible
role in hand hygiene compliance.
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Published online: December 01, 2022
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