Academic Journal
Exploring new approaches to improve hand hygiene monitoring in healthcare
| العنوان: | Exploring new approaches to improve hand hygiene monitoring in healthcare |
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| المؤلفون: | Mackrill, J, Dawson, C, Garvey, B, Gould, D |
| المصدر: | 27 ; 21 |
| بيانات النشر: | Elsevier |
| سنة النشر: | 2016 |
| المجموعة: | Imperial College London: Spiral |
| الوصف: | Background : Hand - mediated transmission of micro - organisms is a major factor for the spread of healthca re associated infections. Ensuring that optimal hand hygiene (HH) practices are followed remains a challenge and monitoring remains a key activity in measuring healthcare professional’s adherence to HH protocols. This paper describes the role that methods from engineering, specifically morphological analysis (MA), can play in developing and improving the efficacy of HH monitoring in healthcare. MA is a process of considering the required functions or features of a system and then identifying all possible me thods to fulfil them. Considering the different methods to achieve each function or feature results in new ways of addressing a challenging problem and can pave the way for innovative system design. Method: Using an expert discussion panel of infection pre vention specialists, MA was applied as a means to discuss the current system of HH monitoring and explore future system improvements. Findings: The discussion revealed themes of; The adequacy of current HH monitoring systems; Goals of HH monitoring improv ement; Access to HH monitoring data for patients; The value of MA to identify new possibilities for HH monitoring. Discussion : The findings specifically demonstrate the application of an engineering method that has highlighted how condition monitoring may improve the HH monitoring process along. Conclusion : Condition monitoring measures (such as staff satisfaction) may be a useful addition to existing measures to monitor hand hygiene and give meaning for recipients of HH feedback data and also indicate a potential change in HH behaviour. |
| نوع الوثيقة: | article in journal/newspaper |
| اللغة: | unknown |
| تدمد: | 2468-0451 |
| Relation: | Infection, Disease and Health; http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/43598; https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.idh.2016.12.004 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.idh.2016.12.004 |
| الاتاحة: | http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/43598 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.idh.2016.12.004 |
| Rights: | /ª 2017 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V. on behalf of Australasian College for Infection Prevention and Control. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) |
| رقم الانضمام: | edsbas.2777BEC8 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | BASE |
| تدمد: | 24680451 |
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| DOI: | 10.1016/j.idh.2016.12.004 |