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Handwashing quality: impact of a special program
B Coignard1, B Grandbastien, Y Berrouane
1Service d'Epidémiologie et de Santé Publique, Centre Hospitalier Régional Universitaire, Lille, France. bcoignard@univ-lille2.fr
Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology
|August 14, 1998
Abstract:
To evaluate the impact of a program on basic handwashing quality, a before-after audit was performed in a university hospital. We defined a 13-step protocol to describe a proper basic handwash (BHW). The proportion of BHW that satisfied this checklist increased significantly, from 4.2% before the program to 18.6% after, but these low proportions suggest that simpler alternatives to BHW should be studied.