Systematic Assessment and Evaluation for Improvement of Hand Hygiene Compliance

Abstract

  Hand-washing and hand hygiene are based on nosocomial infection control. However, many medical staff do not obey the hand hygiene guidelines, so improvement of the rate of hand hygiene compliance is very important. The rate of hand hygiene significantly increased from 3.2% in 2011 to 21.9% in 2013, following intervention by the infection control committee and ICT. Furthermore, the rates of detection of MRSA and newly detected MRSA decreased from 31.5% to 13.1% and 11.5% to 2.6%, respectively. These findings suggest that improvement of the rate of hand hygiene results in decreased detection of MRSA, and fewer new MRSA. This study shows that systematic assessment of nosocomial infection control is very important.