TY - JOUR
T1 - The effect of leadership on hand hygiene
T2 - Assessing hand hygiene adherence prior to patient contact in 2 infectious disease units in Tuscany
AU - Lieber, Sarah R.
AU - Mantengoli, Elisabetta
AU - Saint, Sanjay
AU - Fowler, Karen E.
AU - Fumagalli, Carlo
AU - Bartolozzi, Dario
AU - Magistri, Lea
AU - Niccolini, Fabrizio
AU - Bartoloni, Alessandro
N1 - Copyright:
Copyright 2014 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2014/3
Y1 - 2014/3
N2 - We assessed hand hygiene adherence in 2 infectious disease units. In one unit, adherence declined slightly from year 1 (84.2%) to year 4 (71.0%) after a multimodal intervention but remained much higher than before intervention. Adherence dropped in the second unit after a loss of leadership (from 50.7% to 5.7%). Strong leadership presence may improve hand hygiene adherence.
AB - We assessed hand hygiene adherence in 2 infectious disease units. In one unit, adherence declined slightly from year 1 (84.2%) to year 4 (71.0%) after a multimodal intervention but remained much higher than before intervention. Adherence dropped in the second unit after a loss of leadership (from 50.7% to 5.7%). Strong leadership presence may improve hand hygiene adherence.
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U2 - 10.1086/675296
DO - 10.1086/675296
M3 - Article
C2 - 24521600
AN - SCOPUS:84893901401
SN - 0899-823X
VL - 35
SP - 313
EP - 316
JO - Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology
JF - Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology
IS - 3
ER -