Hand Hygiene
Compliance Rates in the U.S.A.
This page provides up to date
compliance information for hospitals and healthcare centers
in the U.S.A.
For an in-depth study on the
first twelve months of product usage tracking and feedback,
see our research page for
our multicenter study in AJMQ.
These graphs consist of
aggregate data from hospitals across the USA. There is
no individual hospital tracking shown. To see a sample
report for an individual hospital, which demonstrates how
individual tracking is benchmarked to these rates,
E-mail us requesting a sample report and
we'll reply with our sample.
data@hhreports.com.
Return to our hospitals page to
understand more about our database and program.
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ICU Compliance
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Additional
Information |
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You are looking
at time-trend data for all of the hospitals
in the National Hand Hygiene Database that
submit data for ICUs. This is for
combined soap and sanitizer usage. (On
individual hospital reports, soap and
sanitizer usage is separated for analysis.)
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The vertical
axis at the far left represents number of
hand hygiene events per patient per day.
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The horizontal
axis at bottom represents monthly period.
Zero is baseline, 30 would be 30 months of
participation in the study.
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The goal for an
ICU is for healthcare workers to perform
hand hygiene 144 times per patient day.
The goal is represented by the
dark red horizontal
line at the 144 mark on the
vertical axis.
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Each
green dot
represents the bottom 10% of the database
for that monthly period. On this
graph, for the first four months, the bottom
10% of the database was at zero hand hygiene
events. Then by month 5, you can see
the time-trend line begin to move upward.
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Each
black dot
(with red line) represents the average
hospital time-trend line.
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Each
blue dot
represents the top 10% of the
database. As you can see, even after
30 months, the top 10% of hospitals in the
program have still not reached the goal of
144HH/bed day.
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You are looking
at time-trend data for all of the hospitals
in the National Hand Hygiene Database that
submit data for ICUs.
-
The vertical
axis at the far left represents number of
hand hygiene events per patient per day.
-
The horizontal
axis at bottom represents monthly period.
Zero is baseline, 28 would be 28 months of
participation in the study.
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Each monthly
period charts soap usage (red
bar), sanitizer usage (green
bar) and combined soap +
sanitizer usage (blue
bar).
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The compliance
goal is 144 HH events per patient per day
(not indicated on the graph) which you would
measure the combined product usage (blue
bar) against the goal to determine how close
or how far you are from compliance.
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Graphs |
Additional
Information |
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You are looking
at time-trend data for all of the hospitals
in the National Hand Hygiene Database that
submit data for Non-ICUs. This is for
combined soap and sanitizer usage. (On
individual hospital reports, soap and
sanitizer usage is separated for analysis.)
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The vertical
axis at the far left represents number of
hand hygiene events per patient per day.
-
The horizontal
axis at bottom represents monthly period.
Zero is baseline, 30 would be 30 months of
participation in the study.
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The goal for a
Non-ICU is for healthcare workers to perform
hand hygiene 72 times per patient day.
The goal is represented by the
dark red horizontal
line at the 72 mark on the
vertical axis.
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Each
green dot
represents the bottom 10% of the database
for that monthly period. On this
graph, for the first ten months, the bottom
10% of the database was at zero hand hygiene
events. Then by month 12 or so, you
can see the time-trend line begin to move
upward.
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Each
black dot
(with red line) represents the average
hospital time-trend line.
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Each
blue dot
represents the top 10% of the
database. As you can see, at about the
13th month, the blue dots intersect the goal
line and move above it in later months.
This means it took the top 10% of our
database 13 months of monitoring and
feedback before they reached the goal.
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The average line
(black dots) is rising upward but the
average hospital has not reached the goal by
the 30 month period.
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You are looking
at time-trend data for all of the hospitals
in the National Hand Hygiene Database that
submit data for Non-ICUs.
-
The vertical
axis at the far left represents number of
hand hygiene events per patient per day.
-
The horizontal
axis at bottom represents monthly period.
Zero is baseline, 28 would be 28 months of
participation in the study.
-
Each monthly
period charts soap usage (red
bar), sanitizer usage (green
bar) and combined soap +
sanitizer usage (blue
bar).
-
The compliance
goal is 72 HH events per patient per day
(not indicated on the graph) which you would
measure the combined product usage (blue
bar) against the goal to determine how close
or how far you are from compliance.
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