Effects of a 4-year intervention on hand hygiene compliance and incidence of healthcare associated infections: a longitudinal study

This study sought to determine the extent of change in HH compliance after multimodal HH interventions, and to evaluate the relationship between that change and HAI incidence. Methods: We conducted a longitudinal study in a general teaching hospital in China from 2017 to 2020. Trained investigators observed HH practices based on the World Health Organization ' s 5 moments for HH. We identified the incidence of HAIs using semi-automated constant surveillance software. We used the Cochran –Mantel–Haenszel test to assess the secular trend of HH compliance and HAIs. The Spearman correlation coefficient (rs) was used to evaluate the relationship between the incidence of HAIs and compliance with HH. Results: The study made 480,943 observations, where HH was occurring between 2017 and 2020. HH compliance increased from 68.90 to 91.76% during that period (Ptrend
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