Are short training sessions on hand hygiene effective in preventing hospital-acquired MRSA?
We tested the impact of short hand hygiene training sessions and bed occupancy rates on the spread of hospital-acquired methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) using a multivariate time-series analysis. According to our model, bed occupancy rates within general ward and intensive care unit settings correlated positively with the incidence of hospital-acquired MRSA, whereas alcohol-based hand rub use and MRSA showed a negative correlation. Furthermore, our model shows that 2 hand hygiene campaigns based on short training sessions effected a long-run reduction in the incidence of hospital-acquired MRSA.
Related Questions
- Can commercial companies reproduce or reprint WHO Hand Hygiene materials to use and distribute to support training and educational activities?
- Why do your hand sanitizing products make no reference to being effective against MRSA, C difficile or Norovirus but your surface products do?
- Can I split my credit and use to purchase one or multiple training sessions of a lower value?
