Hand Hygiene Survey (Preliminary Results)

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Hand Hygiene Survey (Preliminary
Results) Implementing Effective Hand Hygiene
Programs in Healthcare A. McGeer, K. Green, J.
Lourenco, G. Youssef for the Hand Hygiene
Research Steering Committee Department of
Microbiology, Mount Sinai Hospital, 600
University Avenue, Toronto, Ontario, M5G 1X5,
Canada.
STAFF EDUCATION FUNDING
STUDY DESCRIPTION

• Part of a joint effort by the Canadian Patient
  Safety Institute, the Canadian Council for Health
  Services Accreditation, the Public Health Agency
  of Canada, the Community and Hospital Infection
  Control Association, and Mount Sinai Hospital to
  develop a national hand hygiene campaign
• Survey designed to assess the status of hand
  hygiene adherence and initiatives in healthcare
  organizations across Canada
• From April to May 2007, the survey was available
  on the CHICA website 171 CHICA members
  participated
• Survey will be mailed to acute care, long-term
  care, rehabilitation, and mental health
  facilities public health units and emergency
  medical services during June 2007
• Final survey results will be available on Mount
  Sinais Hospitals Microbiology Department
  website at www.microbiology.mtsinai.on.ca

Figure 4. Number of facilities in which there is
a written hand hygiene policy and if the policy
is signed or not.
Figure 5. Number of facilities that provide hand
hygiene educational programs to staff.

PARTICIPANTS
Figure 1. Facility types of participants.
Figure 3. Participants role in their
organization.
Figure 2. Province in which participants are
located.
Figure 6. Number of facilities that provide skin
care programs to staff and types of programs
provided.

HAND HYGIENE PRODUCTS INITIATIVES
Figure 7. Types of hand hygiene products that
facilities provide for staff.
Figure 9. Location of hand hygiene products in
the facility.
Figure 8. Types of hand hygiene promotional
material used in facilities.
Figure 10. Number of facilities that receive
financial support for hand hygiene initiatives
and type of support received.

Figure 11. Types of tools for monitoring hand
hygiene adherence used by facilities.
Figure 12. Reasons why facilities have not
audited hand hygiene adherence.
Figure 13. Components of hand hygiene initiatives.
FAST FACTS

• 15 have a dedicated budget for promotional
  material
• 39 reported hospital rules and regulations that
  limit the use of promotional material
• 21 of facilities include adherence in staff
  performance reviews
• 29 of those that do take disciplinary actions
  for non-adherence
• 10 of facilities include adherence to hand
  hygiene policies in their job description
• 12 of facilities have monitored patient
  impressions of adherence in satisfaction surveys
• 76 of organizations have implemented initiatives
  to improve hand hygiene in the last 2 years