Hand hygiene improvement of individual healthcare workers: results of the multicentre PROHIBIT study.

van der Kooi, Tjallie; Sax, Hugo; Grundmann, Hajo; Pittet, Didier; de Greeff, Sabine; van Dissel, Jaap; Clack, Lauren; Wu, Albert W; Davitt, Judith; Kostourou, Sofia; Maguinness, Alison; Michalik, Anna; Nedelcu, Viorica; Patyi, Márta; Perme Hajdinjak, Janja; Prosen, Milena; Tellez, David; Varga, Éva; Veini, Fani; Ziętkiewicz, Mirosław; ... (2022). Hand hygiene improvement of individual healthcare workers: results of the multicentre PROHIBIT study. Antimicrobial resistance and infection control, 11(1), p. 123. BioMed Central 10.1186/s13756-022-01148-1

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BACKGROUND

Traditionally, hand hygiene (HH) interventions do not identify the observed healthcare workers (HWCs) and therefore, reflect HH compliance only at population level. Intensive care units (ICUs) in seven European hospitals participating in the "Prevention of Hospital Infections by Intervention and Training" (PROHIBIT) study provided individual HH compliance levels. We analysed these to understand the determinants and dynamics of individual change in relation to the overall intervention effect.

METHODS

We included HCWs who contributed at least two observation sessions before and after intervention. Improving, non-changing, and worsening HCWs were defined with a threshold of 20% compliance change. We used multivariable linear regression and spearman's rank correlation to estimate determinants for the individual response to the intervention and correlation to overall change. Swarm graphs visualized ICU-specific patterns.

RESULTS

In total 280 HCWs contributed 17,748 HH opportunities during 2677 observation sessions. Overall, pooled HH compliance increased from 43.1 to 58.7%. The proportion of improving HCWs ranged from 33 to 95% among ICUs. The median HH increase per improving HCW ranged from 16 to 34 percentage points. ICU wide improvement correlated significantly with both the proportion of improving HCWs (ρ = 0.82 [95% CI 0.18-0.97], and their median HH increase (ρ = 0.79 [0.08-0.97]). Multilevel regression demonstrated that individual improvement was significantly associated with nurse profession, lower activity index, higher nurse-to-patient ratio, and lower baseline compliance.

CONCLUSIONS

Both the proportion of improving HCWs and their median individual improvement differed substantially among ICUs but correlated with the ICUs' overall HH improvement. With comparable overall means the range in individual HH varied considerably between some hospitals, implying different transmission risks. Greater insight into improvement dynamics might help to design more effective HH interventions in the future.

Item Type:

Journal Article (Original Article)

Division/Institute:

04 Faculty of Medicine > Department of Haematology, Oncology, Infectious Diseases, Laboratory Medicine and Hospital Pharmacy (DOLS) > Clinic of Infectiology

UniBE Contributor:

Sax, Hugo Siegfried

Subjects:

600 Technology > 610 Medicine & health

ISSN:

2047-2994

Publisher:

BioMed Central

Language:

English

Submitter:

Marceline Brodmann

Date Deposited:

23 Feb 2023 10:25

Last Modified:

26 Feb 2023 02:16

Publisher DOI:

10.1186/s13756-022-01148-1

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PubMed ID:

36199149

Uncontrolled Keywords:

Activity index Hand hygiene Individual Intensive care Intervention Multicentre

BORIS DOI:

10.48350/179084

URI:

https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/179084

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