Hand hygiene compliance among healthcare workers in the hospitalization area of the CMDLT

Abstract

Introduction: hand hygiene (HH) is an essential tool to prevent the transmission of microorganisms through the contact between one patient and another, reducing the occurrence of Healthcare-Associated Infections (HAI), which has an impact on the decrease of morbidity and mortality in hospitalized patients. The objective of this study was to determine the compliance of healthcare workers with the 5 moments of the HH in the hospitalization area of the Centro Médico Docente La Trinidad (CMDLT), evaluating each of the 5 moments of the World Health Organization. Methodology: A cross-sectional prospective observational study was performed, where the observation areas were evaluated to assess their functionality and subsequently 100 direct undercover observations of HH opportunities were made in the healthcare workers of the hospitalization area. All the information was collected in forms, tabulated in Excel and later analyzed using descriptive statistics. Results: Compliance was 25% in general, 36% in the medical staff and 15.91% in the nursing staff. In 75% of the opportunities, HH was omitted. The moment where the most HH actions were carried out was the 4th. Conclusion: An increase in compliance to HH in the CMDLT was evidenced compared to that obtained in 2016. The group with the highest compliance was medical staff, followed by nursing staff.