RESUMEN
The national German hand hygiene campaign is implementing the WHO patient safety initiative "Clean Care is Safer Care". After 6 years over 1400 health care institutions are participating in the campaign on a voluntary basis. The implementation of the multimodal intervention concept including improvement of alcohol based hand rub availability, the introduction of 2 surveillance methods and of the WHO "My 5 Moments of Hand Hygiene Model" in those health care facilities, participating for several years, increased median hand hygiene compliance by 11% and alcohol based hand rub availability by 61%.
Asunto(s)
Infección Hospitalaria/prevención & control , Adhesión a Directriz , Desinfección de las Manos/normas , Control de Infecciones/organización & administración , Alcoholes , Infección Hospitalaria/epidemiología , Desinfectantes , Alemania , Desinfección de las Manos/tendencias , Promoción de la Salud , Humanos , Organización Mundial de la SaludRESUMEN
Annual surveillance data (2007-2015), collected continuously in 132 German hospitals, was evaluated for development of alcohol-based hand-rub consumption (AHC) as a surrogate parameter for hand hygiene adherence. Overall, the median increase in AHC was 94%. The increases over 9 years were significant in all units and quartiles of AHC at baseline. Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol 2017;38:870-872.