Just a Friendly Reminder…Improving Visitor Hand Hygiene Practice with a Simple Verbal Cue

• DOI: 10.1542/peds.140.1ma.22
• Publication Date: 2023-03-01T23:41:05Z
• Authors: Amit T Singh; Lauren Tholemeier; Terry Platchek
• Keywords: 0301 basic medicine; 03 medical and health sciences; 0305 other medical science; 3. Good health

Proper hand hygiene (HH) plays an important role in preventing the spread of infections, yet, the prompting, monitoring, and sustainment of good HH practices for hospital visitors remains challenging. Visitors enter the hospital from multiple points of entry, may not think about HH, and/or do not think it is their responsibility to participate, all of which may contribute to lack of proper HH. The aim of our project was to measure if a simple verbal cue to visitors at the time of entry to the hospital would …