11 Reasons for Hand Hygiene Noncompliance

Feeling hurried or attending to emergent patient conditions was the top reason for noncompliance with hand hygiene protocol identified by healthcare workers in a hospital in Thailand, according to a study in Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology.

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In a survey, healthcare workers identified 11 barriers to compliance with the World Health Organization’s five moments of hand hygiene.

Read the full story on hand hygiene compliance barriers in Becker’s ASC Review.

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