Patient, staff empowerment and hand hygiene bundle improved and sustained hand hygiene in hospital wards

Conclusions: The ' HH Bundle ' of appointing HH champions, active reminders and feedback, patient education and empowerment, availability of hand moisturisers, tagging near-empty hand rub bottles together with hospital-wide initiatives including financial incentives and the ' Speak Up for Patient Safety ' campaign successfully improved the overall HH compliance to>90%. These interventions were highly reliable, sustained over 4 years and also reduced health-care-associated rotavirus infection rates.
Source: Current Awareness Service for Health (CASH) - Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news