José R Generoso, Eduardo Casaroto, Ary Serpa Neto, Marcelo Prado, Guilherme M Gagliardi, Fernando Gatti de Menezes, Priscila Gonçalves, Fábio Barlem Hohmann, Guilherme Benfatti Olivato, Gustavo Potratz Gonçalves, Andréa Marques Pereira, Nathalia Xavier, Marcelo Fernandes Miguel, Elivane da Silva Victor, Michael B Edmond, Alexandre R Marra
BACKGROUND: Most hand hygiene (HH) intervention studies use a quasi-experimental design, are primarily uncontrolled before-and-after studies, or are controlled before-and-after studies with a nonequivalent control group. Well-funded studies with improved designs and HH interventions are needed. OBJECTIVES: To evaluate healthcare worker (HCW) HH compliance with alcohol-based hand rub (ABHR) through direct observation (human observer), 2 electronic technologies, a radio frequency identification (RFID) badge system, and an invasive device sensor...
2022: Antimicrob Steward Healthc Epidemiol