Evaluate the efficacy of a multimodal hand hygiene system in the intensive care unit environment and evaluate any impact on health care associated infections.
Deploy and utilize a novel body worn hand hygiene system that incorporates provider and group specific feedback allowing hand hygiene to occur directly within the patient environment. We hypothesize that by improving provider hand hygiene we will reduce health-care associated infection rates.
Study Type
OBSERVATIONAL
Enrollment
2,954
Records hand hygiene events of provider and tabulates on the group level.
CDC based guidelines with regard to utilization in the health care environment "the nest"
12 minute education prior to deploying device for all providers.
Dartmouth-HItchcock Medical Center
Lebanon, New Hampshire, United States
Reduction in healthcare associated infections (CRBSI and VAP)
Time frame: 2 years
Time to infections Hospital mortality Length of stay
Time frame: 2 years
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Provide feedback with regard to expected hand hygiene goals to providers and reported anonymous group results based on recorded information.