Hand Hygiene Compliance Rate (WHO Observed Opportunities)
WHO hand hygiene compliance from observed opportunities: performed actions over opportunities, times 100, overall and per moment, as the WHO Hand Hygiene Technical Reference Manual (2009) section III.7 states it.
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Example
- Moment 1 (before touching a patient): opportunities
- 6
- Moment 1 (before touching a patient): actions at those opportunities
- 3
Result: Hand hygiene compliance 50%: 3 performed actions over 6 opportunities.
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What you enter
- Moment 1 (before touching a patient): opportunities
- Moment 1 (before touching a patient): actions at those opportunities
- Moment 2 (before a clean / aseptic procedure): opportunities
- Moment 2 (before a clean / aseptic procedure): actions at those opportunities
- Moment 3 (after body fluid exposure risk): opportunities
- Moment 3 (after body fluid exposure risk): actions at those opportunities
- Moment 4 (after touching a patient): opportunities
- Moment 4 (after touching a patient): actions at those opportunities
The other 2 fields
- Moment 5 (after touching patient surroundings): opportunities
- Moment 5 (after touching patient surroundings): actions at those opportunities
How this is calculated
Citation
WHO. Hand Hygiene Technical Reference Manual, 2009, section III.7: compliance is the performed hand hygiene actions over the opportunities, times 100; an opportunity is a moment when hand hygiene was necessary, and several indications arising together are one opportunity requiring one action. Read the source ↗
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