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Measurement and interpretation of hand hygiene compliance rates: importance of monitoring entire care episodes
Journal of Hospital Infection, 06/18/09
Eveillard M et al. - Monitoring HHC during entire care episodes in series of successive contacts is necessary to avoid a strong overestimation of the overall compliance rates. Concurrently, comparison of compliance data should take into account the proportion of ISOs included in the evaluation study.
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