Canada-based Eastern Health is installing electronic bulletin boards reflecting hand washing compliance in its acute, long-term care and outpatient centers, according to cbcnews.
Here are five key points:
1. These 167 electronic bulletin boards will display how often physicians and nurses wash their hands.
2. Auditors working in each unit will observe physicians and nurses, using a tablet app to report whether staff members are washing their hands both before and after interacting with patients.
3. The electronic boards will offer real-time percentages of hand hygiene compliance.
4. Eastern Health decided to implement a pilot program of this initiative to raise its current 40 percent to 50 percent hand hygiene compliance rate. After one year, most units demonstrated a more than 100 percent increase from their baseline rates.
5. The program costs $400,000.
