US: Consumers Union urges hospitals to disclose handwashing compliance rates - (Consumers Union)
October 15, 2007 – 5:30 pmAUSTIN, TX — As Hospital Infection Prevention Week (October 14-20) begins across the country, Consumers Union, the nonprofit publisher of Consumer Reports, is calling on hospitals nationwide to disclose their hand washing compliance rates.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) considers proper hand hygiene to be the single most important factor in protecting patients from hospital acquired infections, which kill nearly 100,000 Americans every year. Yet most hospitals fail to ensure that health care workers follow proper hand hygiene practices on a consistent basis.
Clean hands save lives, said Lisa McGiffert, Director of Consumers Unions Stop Hospital Infections campaign (www.StopHospitalInfections.org) . Unfortunately, most hospitals have a poor track record when it comes to making sure caregivers are protecting patients from infections by cleaning their hands properly.
Numerous studies have documented that hand hygiene compliance rates in most hospitals are unacceptably low usually below 50 percent. That means, on average, doctors, […]
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