MSNBC.COM:"Hey, doc, wash your hands!" Patients
shouldn't be shy about asking providers to hit the sink,
experts say. Take the online survey and see what other
readers think!
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Advising:
McGuckin Methods International counsels hospital teams,
healthcare organizations, professional associations, and corporate
healthcare partners.
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Events:
Word-OUT! Awareness Foundation's National Clean Hands Week.
Where else can you find
hospital officials,
celebrity healthcare advocates, a hand hygiene musical cast
of dozens, and Elmo all on one collaborative stage?more...
McGuckin Methods International
A
Measurement & Feedback Standard
McGuckin Methods International (MMI), a
listed Patient Safety Organization, provides infection prevention teams
with hand hygiene compliance measurement reports using methodology recognized by the
Joint Commission, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and World Health
Organization.
We maintain the
National Hand Hygiene Database for Compliance Measurement, featuring
data submitted by several hundred hospitals that contribute to this
ongoing collaborative to improve hand hygiene compliance
in the USA using our methodology.
This program has
contributed to research and profiles in the American Journal of
Infection Control, American Journal of Medical Quality, the
Journal of Hospital Infection, Infection Control Today, Materials
Management in Health Care, and
abstracts at APIC, IDSA, and
SHEA, and regional associations.
Compliance
monitoring for hospitals or
ambulatory care
We
provide monthly reports for each of your
healthcare service units,
documenting soap and sanitizer usage and comparing your compliance
rates to
evidence-based goals for each unit type. Results are
confidential.
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Reinforce a multimodal hand hygiene compliance
program
Two
pivotal publications in 2009, the WHO Guidelines for HH
in Healthcare and the
Joint Commission monograph on hand hygiene adherence,
illustrate multimethod approaches that incorporate components of
education, measurement, and feedback for hand hygiene
adherence improvement. Our program covers all three
components.
Dr. McGuckin is lead author for the WHO Guideline chapter on
patient empowerment, and 4 of the 37 programs reviewed in
the JC monograph feature McGuckin Method's program for
measurement and feedback. more...
Announcements
Summer 2010
Announcements Coming Soon!
Infection Control Today 4th Annual Conference on
Professional Development Feb. 9-10. A
free web event! No travel, no fees, no
time away from work. Earn CE credits.
Maryanne McGuckin speaking on hand hygiene
Feb.9.
www.ictconference.com
MMI
will be presenting poster abstracts at the Fifth
Decennial Conference on HAIs, Atlanta, March
2010. We answer the question "What Effect
did the Novel A H1N1 Have on HH Events at the
Bedside in US Hospitals?" and also present on
"Six Years of Monitoring Hand Hygiene Events and
Sanitizer Usage in the US: A Multicenter Study
using Product Volume Measurement". We
would love to meet you, please save us a spot on
your conference schedule! Abstracts
presented Friday, March 19 12:30-2pm poster
hall.
Video
You Gotta Wash Your Hands!
Aerial reminder on the PECO Crown Lights, high
above downtown Philadelphia, brought to us by the Word-OUT!
Awareness Foundation.More videos
and pictures in our events section...
Newsletter.Talk to the Hand, MMI's periodic
hand hygiene newsletter with compliance tips from
Preventionists, infection control event notices, and other
educational FYIs.
more...
Request a newsletter:
E-mail us to add yourself to our e-list at:
data@hhreports.com.
Nobody uses your e-mail except McGuckin Methods for HH
compliance related notices only.
Webinars, tools and resources, best practices, and more.
Pledge your healthcare facility's commitment and visit this
resourceful website. 1352
healthcare centers in the USA have signed up as of Oct. 30,
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2010
FAQs
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