Journal of Healthcare Management - September/October 2015 - (Page 348)
A Review of Electronic Hand
Hygiene Monitoring: Considerations
for Hospital Management in Data
Collection, Healthcare Worker
Supervision, and Patient Perception
Maryanne McGuckin, DrScEd, president and principal investigator, McGuckin Methods
International, Ardmore, Pennsylvania; and John Govednik, co-principal investigator,
McGuckin Methods International
E X E C U T I V E S U M M A R Y
Healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) in U.S. acute care hospitals lead to a burden
of $96-$147 billion annually on the U.S. health system and affect 1 in 20 hospital
patients (Marchetti & Rossiter, 2013). Hospital managers are charged with reducing
and eliminating HAIs to cut costs and improve patient outcomes. Healthcare worker
(HCW) hand hygiene (HH) practice is the most effective means of preventing the
spread of HAIs, but compliance is at or below 50% (McGuckin, Waterman, & Govednik, 2009). For managers to increase the frequency of HCW HH occurrences and
improve the quality of HH performance, companies have introduced electronic
technologies to assist managers in training, supervising, and gathering data in the
patient care setting. Although these technologies offer valuable feedback regarding
compliance, little is known in terms of capabilities in the clinical setting. Less is
known about HCW or patient attitudes if the system allows feedback to be shared.
Early-adopting managers have begun to examine their experiences with HH technologies and publish their findings. We review peer-reviewed research on infection
prevention that focused on the capabilities of these electronic systems, as well as the
related research on HCW and patient interactions with electronic HH systems.
Research suggests that these systems are capable of collecting data, but the results are
mixed regarding their impact on HH compliance, reducing HAIs, or both and their
costs. Research also indicates that HCWs and patients may not regard the technology
as positively as industry or healthcare managers may have intended. When considering the adoption of electronic HH monitoring systems, hospital administrators
should proceed with caution.
For more information about the concepts in this article, contact Dr. McGuckin at
maryanne@mcguckinmethods.com.
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