Light-guided nudging and data-driven performance feedback improve hand hygiene compliance among nurses and doctors

Doctors (surgeons) have lower baseline hand hygiene compliance than nurses. • Light-guided nudging and data-driven performance feedback improve compliance. • Individual performance feedback might be more effective than group feedback. • The Sani nudge system detects more opportunities than using manual observations. • Nurses and doctors disinfect hands more often af ter rather than before patient contact. [Display omitted] Evidence-based practices to increase hand hygiene compliance (HHC) among health care workers are warranted. We aimed to investigate the effect of a multimodal strategy on HHC. During this 14-month prospective, observational study, an automate d monitoring system was implemented in a 29-bed surgical ward. Hand hygiene opportunities and alcohol-based hand rubbing events were measured in patient and working rooms (medication, utility, storerooms, toilets). We compared baseline HHC of health care workers across periods with light-guided nudg ing from sensors on dispensers and data-driven performance feedback (multimodal strategy) using the Student ' s t test. The doctors (n = 10) significantly increased their HHC in patient rooms (16% vs 42%, P
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