Hand hygiene compliance in Penang, Malaysia: Human audits versus product usage

Lee YF 1 , Merican H 1 , Nallusamy R 2 , Ong LM 3 , Mohamed Nazir P 4 , Hamzah HB 2 Show all authors , McLaws ML 5

Affiliations 

  • 1 Penang State Health Department, Ministry of Health, Georgetown, Malaysia
  • 2 Infection Control Unit, Penang Hospital, Ministry of Health, Georgetown, Malaysia
  • 3 Clinical Research Centre, Penang Hospital, Ministry of Health, Georgetown, Malaysia
  • 4 Medical Development Division, Ministry of Health, Putrajaya, Malaysia
  • 5 School of Public Health and Community Medicine, UNSW Medicine, Sydney, NSW, Australia. Electronic address: m.mclaws@unsw.edu.au
Am J Infect Control, 2016 06 01;44(6):e95-7.
PMID: 26897697 DOI: 10.1016/j.ajic.2015.12.031

Abstract

Hand hygiene auditing is mandatory for all Malaysian public hospitals; nonetheless, the burden of auditing is impacting the support and sustainability of the program. We report an alternative method to routinely measure hand hygiene compliance with the aim to test whether alcohol-based handrub purchase data could be used as a proxy for usage because human auditing has decreased validity and reliability inherent in the methodology.

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