sing environmental engineering to increase hand-hygiene compliance

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: Hand hygiene of hospital staff and visitors; Not Applicable

• Registration Number: ISRCTN15397624
• Lead Sponsor: niversity of Warwick

Brief Summary

2017 protocol in: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28893752

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Results First Posted: 1900-01-01
• Study Start: 2017-03-31
• Study Completion: 2018-03-31
• Last Update Posted: 3 May 2021

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 9811

Inclusion Criteria

1. Any person who walks into the wards while the study is active may have their hand-hygiene activity recorded
2. Walking people below the age of 18 will be included because it would be unfeasible to approach people during observations sessions to ask their age, or the data is automatically recorded (i.e., gel use or soap use), but children unable to use the dispensers (i.e., a baby in a pushchair) will not be recorded

Exclusion Criteria

Anyone who is incapable of cleaning their hands when entering a ward (e.g., patients on a stretcher, children in a buggy, etc)

Study & Design

• Study Type: Interventional
• Study Design: Not specified