Measuring hand hygiene opportunities per hour across two neonatal intensive care units

• Main Authors: Eugene Lee (Author), Souad Al-Muthree (Author), Paige Reason (Author), Meghan Donohue (Author), Michael Dunn (Author), Meghan Statchuk (Author), Sarah Khan (Author), Shikha Gupta-Bhatnagar (Author), Salhab El-Helou (Author), Jerome Leis (Author), Dominik Mertz (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Cambridge University Press, 2023-06-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Background: To estimate hand hygiene compliance using electronic hand hygiene monitoring, the number of hand hygiene opportunities (HHOs) per period must be known in a given setting. Data on the number of HHOs in a neonatal ICU (NICU) are limited. We measured HHOs per hour and identified factors tha...