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Hand Hygiene Research Project
Hand Hygiene Saves Lives: Enlisting Patients as Partners
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CDC – Catholic Health Partners (CHP) and Premier study to evaluate CDC Patient Admission Video
A recent study was done to evaluate the success of a new video developed by CDC that is designed to educate patients about hand hygiene and empower them to ask their caregiver to wash their hands. This video, Hand Hygiene Saves Lives, was evaluated in 17 Catholic Healthcare Partner (CHP) hospitals in collaboration with CDC and Premier. The results showed that the Hand Hygiene Saves Lives video appear to be a promising method for empowering patients to ask their care provider to perform hand hygiene and may improve hand hygiene adherence in healthcare settings.
CDC - Hand Hygiene Saves Lives - Patient Admission Video
This video demonstrates how patients can approach staff about hand hygiene in a non-confrontational manner. This free, five-minute video focuses on patient and staff attitudes, and shows how patients can comfortably ask their caregiver to wash or clean their hands before providing hands-on care if they haven't seen them do so. This patient and staff training tool is ideally suited for viewing on public healthcare broadcasting sites throughout the facility, such as lobbies or waiting rooms and is available in English and Spanish. It teaches two key points to hospital patients and visitors to help prevent infections: the importance of practicing hand hygiene while in the hospital and that it is appropriate to ask or remind their healthcare providers to practice hand hygiene as well.
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RESULTS:
A Multi-Center Evaluation of the Patient Empowerment Video
Hand Hygiene Saves Lives. Brinsley-Rainish KJ, Schillie SF, Pugliese G, Bartley J, Jernigan JA. CDC Fifth Decennial on Healthcare-associated infections, Atlanta GA 2010.
(pdf)(68kb) - List of participating hospitals
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References: Patient education, empowerment, beliefs on hand hygiene
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Slide Presentation from CDC: Hand Hygiene in Healthcare Settings: An Overview
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