Highlights
- Physician and nurse hand hygiene was studied in 3 Japanese hospitals over 5 years.
- We conducted direct observation of hand hygiene before patient contact.
- A multimodal hand hygiene intervention had been successfully implemented 5 years prior.
- Hand hygiene improved from 18% before to 33% 6 months after the intervention.
- Hand hygiene at 5 years after the intervention was unchanged at 32%.
Abstract
Background
Our goal was to evaluate the 5-year sustainability of a multimodal intervention that included a prize to the hospital with the highest overall hand hygiene adherence rates among health care workers.
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