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Effect of Varying the Number and Location of Alcohol-Based Hand Rub Dispensers on Usage in a General Inpatient Medical Unit

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Benjamin P. Chan ,
Karen Homa  and
Kathryn B. Kirkland
Benjamin P. Chan*
Affiliation:
Infectious Disease and International Health, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, Lebanon, New Hampshire Leadership and Preventive Medicine Residency Program, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, Lebanon, New Hampshire
Karen Homa
Affiliation:
Leadership and Preventive Medicine Residency Program, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, Lebanon, New Hampshire
Kathryn B. Kirkland
Affiliation:
Infectious Disease and International Health, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, Lebanon, New Hampshire Leadership and Preventive Medicine Residency Program, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, Lebanon, New Hampshire
*
Section of Infectious Disease and International Health, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, One Medical Center Drive, Lebanon, NH 03756-0001 (benjamin.p.chan@hitchcock.org)
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Abstract

We sequentially increased the number of wall-mounted alcohol-based hand rub dispensers in a small medical unit to evaluate effects on hand hygiene performance. Above a certain point, addition of more dispensers did not increase hand hygiene frequency, which appeared to be influenced more by location than by total number of dispensers.

Type
Concise Communication
Information
Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 34 , Issue 9 , September 2013 , pp. 987 - 989
Copyright
Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 2013

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