Achieving Perfect Hand Washing: an Audit Cycle with Surgical Internees.
Asepsis
Clinical audit
Hand hygiene
Hand washing
Journal
The Indian journal of surgery
ISSN: 0972-2068
Titre abrégé: Indian J Surg
Pays: India
ID NLM: 0373026
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
Oct 2021
Oct 2021
Historique:
received:
11
05
2020
accepted:
29
09
2020
pubmed:
13
10
2020
medline:
13
10
2020
entrez:
12
10
2020
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
The aim of this study is to achieve 100% compliance in surgical hand antisepsis along with identification of areas of worst compliance and efficacies of various interventions best suited to deal with them. This audit was performed over 6 days in a tertiary care hospital in Calcutta, India, with 42 surgical internees. Compliance to ideal hand washing technique was recorded after each attempt with the first attempt as baseline. Video demonstration, personal demonstration by a consultant, and individual instruction were used as subsequent interventions to achieve 100% compliance. The baseline level of compliance was found to be 33.59%. A total of 6 attempts was required to achieve 100% compliance, with the increase in compliance being statistically significant (
Identifiants
pubmed: 33041566
doi: 10.1007/s12262-020-02619-8
pii: 2619
pmc: PMC7538262
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
Pagination
1166-1172Informations de copyright
© Association of Surgeons of India 2020.
Déclaration de conflit d'intérêts
Conflict of InterestThe authors declare that they have no conflicts of interest.
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