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Program Design and Evaluation
World Health Organization prescribes a series of measures on hand hygiene to prevent HAIs and those can be described as per the following.
Hand hygiene compliance needs to be measured through observational monitoring and providing feedback to healthcare workers.
Observational studies suggest that the frequency of handwashing could be, on average, 5 and 30 per shift depending upon the ward and nature of healthcare. Nurse-patients ratio, closeness to sink, and time pressure influence hand hygiene practices. Maintaining hand hygiene reduces HAIs and this can be compared with the previous year's HAIs with no focus on hand hygiene to show how hand-hygiene practices reduce the HAIs.
The results of this healthcare intervention can be published in the journal of Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology.
The society for healthcare epidemiology of America is the right forum where the results of these hand hygiene practices can be discussed.
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