This Guidebook provides a comprehensive look at hand hygiene compliance monitoring, specifically electronic systems and how technology can drive improved performance.
Electronic hand hygiene compliance monitoring systems can overcome the challenges of direct observation and provide healthcare institutions with a significant way to address healthcare-associated infections.
While direct observation has been the standard way to monitor hand hygiene compliance behavior - the drawbacks of small sample size, the Hawthorne Effect and lack of inter-rater reliability can make data highly unreliable. Technologies are emerging that are evidence based and may provide a significantly more reliable way to monitor this essential measure of healthcare quality and patient safety. Additionally, with the 2017 inclusion of MRSA and C. diff rates included in the calculation of a hospital’s Hospital-Acquired Condition (HAC) score – the imperative to improve hand hygiene to reduce the risk of these costly infections is that much more critical to avoiding the HAC 1 percent CMS revenue penalty.
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Deb Group is part of SC Johnson, a privately held, family company and one of the worlds leading manufacturers of products for cleaning. Deb Group is a world leader in occupational skin care and hand hygiene, providing dedicated skin care and hand hygiene solutions for over 80 years. The companys DebMed Electronic Hand Hygiene Monitoring System is a leader in hand hygiene compliance and the first and only system clinically proven in a peer-reviewed study to reduce HAIs.
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