Instituto Israelita de Ensino e Pesquisa Albert Einstein, Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein, São Paulo, Brazil.
Clin Microbiol Infect. 2014 Jan;20(1):29-33. doi: 10.1111/1469-0691.12458.
Compliance with hand hygiene is a good quality indicator for hospital patient safety programmes. Hand hygiene is a major infection control prevention intervention, but in many medical centres compliance rates are only c. 50%. Given the enormous number of hand hygiene opportunities in hospitals, direct observation to monitor compliance is very inefficient. However, technologies are emerging to obviate the need for direct observation. These new technologies for monitoring hand hygiene compliance are discussed in this article.
遵守手部卫生是医院患者安全计划的一个良好质量指标。手部卫生是主要的感染控制预防措施，但在许多医疗中心，合规率仅为 c. 50%。鉴于医院内有大量的手部卫生机会，直接观察来监测合规性非常低效。然而，一些新技术正在出现以避免直接观察的需要。本文讨论了监测手部卫生合规性的这些新技术。
