Development of a standardised approach to observing hand hygiene compliance in Australia
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Effects of the Australian National Hand Hygiene Initiative after 8 years on infection control practices, health-care worker education, and clinical outcomes: a longitudinal study
2018, The Lancet Infectious DiseasesCitation Excerpt :Subsequently, as the NHHI moved from the implementation into the maintenance phase, it was the responsibility of each state and territory to carry out gold-standard workshops with the assistance of Hand Hygiene Australia, thereby embedding training responsibility within each jurisdiction's health-care structure; however, Hand Hygiene Australia retained responsibility for private hospitals. The training required to become a validated auditor has been summarised,10 and the number of auditor workshops and health-care workers trained annually was analysed to provide an estimate of organisational activity. Auditing of hand hygiene compliance was undertaken as previously described,4,9 with the number of Moments required to be submitted by each health service defined by the number of acute inpatient beds to allow meaningful comparisons.9
Self-reported behaviors and perceptions of Australian paramedics in relation to hand hygiene and gloving practices in paramedic-led health care
2017, American Journal of Infection ControlCitation Excerpt :This in turn could lead to a rigorous infield observational audit process to assist with improving IPC compliance by paramedics. HHA provides an audit tool for compliance with hand hygiene moments, but it is not recommended for use outside of Australian acute health care facilities.31,61 A similar audit tool for hand hygiene and gloving practices in Australian paramedicine needs to be developed.
Reflection on observation: A qualitative study using practice development methods to explore the experience of being a hand hygiene auditor in Australia
2015, American Journal of Infection ControlCitation Excerpt :Doran et al,24 describing a multifaceted hand hygiene campaign implemented in several health care facilities in Boston, identified feedback of data in a timely manner as one of the main contributors to a significant and sustained improvement in hand hygiene compliance. The need for feedback to health care workers being observed by hand hygiene auditors also has been described by Sax et al7 and others25-27 as an important and necessary component of an effective monitoring program. The present study confirms the need for auditors to receive feedback on their own involvement in the program, not only feedback to the teams being audited.
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