Hand Hygiene Compliance Monitoring

Compliance with World Health Organization (WHO) “Five Moments of Hand Hygiene” opportunities by healthcare workers in acute hospitals. Data from hand hygiene audit tools (MS Excel) are collated by HPSC via the MicroB online tool and the results published.

Purpose: In scope: To support overall multi-faceted strategy for the control and prevention of infectious diseases by providing standardised measure of observational hand hygiene compliance for acute hospitals.

Coverage: 42 public and nine private acute hospitals contributed to the data in Oct 2021. This represents an even geographical spread across Ireland.

Data collected twice per year in May/June and Oct/Nov.

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Additional Info

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Contact points
Contact point 1
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Name
Health Protection Surveillance Centre
Email
data@health-protection-su.ie
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Publisher
Publisher 1
URI
Name
Health Protection Surveillance Centre
Email
URL
Type
http://purl.org/adms/publishertype/NationalAuthority
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Homepage
Landing page
Release date January 1, 2011
Modification date July 20, 2023
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Identifier NDC-0034
Frequency http://publications.europa.eu/resource/authority/frequency/MONTHLY
Provenance

Trained infection and control staff conduct hospital-wide audits of hand hygiene compliance by the facility’s own healthcare workers. Twice yearly (June & Oct) national audits are conducted, of 7 wards per facility with 30 hand hygiene opportunities per each ward audited. Automated data upload, analysis, report generation and approval for publication facilitated via HPSC’s online tool, MicroB.
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Temporal coverage
Temporal coverage 1
Start
January 1, 2011
End
October 23, 2025
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Spatial coverage 1
URI
http://publications.europa.eu/resource/authority/country/IRL
Label
Ireland
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Access rights http://publications.europa.eu/resource/authority/access-right/RESTRICTED
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  1. http://publications.europa.eu/resource/authority/data-theme/HEAL
Language
  1. http://publications.europa.eu/resource/authority/language/ENG
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  1. http://health.europa.eu/ehds/category/registries
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  1. http://health.europa.eu/theme/chronic-disease
  2. http://health.europa.eu/theme/mental-health
  3. http://health.europa.eu/theme/public-health
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Minimum typical age 18
Maximum typical age 85
Number of records 967916
Number of records for unique individuals. 311029
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