Antimicrobial Stewardship & Healthcare Epidemiology (Jan 2022)

Sustainability of a well-established hand hygiene program during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic

  • Lisa B. Stancill,
  • Emily E. Sickbert-Bennett,
  • Lauren M. DiBiase

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1017/ash.2022.13
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 2

Abstract

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Overall, engagement and compliance from the crowd-sourced hand hygiene observation program, Clean-In-Clean-Out (CICO), were similar between 2019 (96.6%) and 2020 (96.7%) despite fluctuations within 2020 that reflected our hospital’s coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) experience. Shared responsibility and just-in-time reminders can allow manual hand hygiene observation models to be sustainable.

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