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Table 1 Change in hand hygiene compliance per indication by study group and by study period

From: A multimodal intervention to improve hand hygiene compliance in peripheral wards of a tertiary care university centre: a cluster randomised controlled trial

WHO-moment

Group

Period

Number of HH-opportunities

Number of HH-actions

Compliance (%)

Absolute change

Odds ratioa

(CI95), p-value

All

Intervention

Baseline

2494

1482

59.42

 

reference

Intervention

8215

5033

61.27

1.85

1.08 (0.88, 1.33), 0.46

Control

Baseline

2484

1457

58.66

 

reference

Intervention

8231

4948

60.11

1.45

1.06 (0.84, 1.35), 0.62

1 – before touching a patient

Intervention

Baseline

698

393

56.3

 

reference

Intervention

2346

1408

60.02

3.72

1.16 (0.86, 1.58), 0.33

Control

Baseline

658

352

53.5

 

reference

Intervention

2130

1201

56.38

2.88

1.12 (0.80, 1.58), 0.50

2 – before clean or aseptic procedure

Intervention

Baseline

380

168

44.21

 

reference

Intervention

1452

764

52.62

8.41

1.40 (1.04, 1.89), 0.03

Control

Baseline

426

193

45.31

 

reference

Intervention

1738

905

52.07

6.76

1.31 (0.93, 1.84), 0.12

3 – after body fluid exposure risk

Intervention

Baseline

171

114

66.67

 

reference

Intervention

527

333

63.19

−3.48

0.86 (0.60, 1.23), 0.40

Control

Baseline

241

145

60.17

 

reference

Intervention

705

482

68.37

8.20

1.43 (0.94, 2.18), 0.09

4 – after touching a patient

Intervention

Baseline

791

563

71.18

 

reference

Intervention

2496

1774

71.07

−0.11

1.00 (0.77, 1.29), 0.97

Control

Baseline

668

499

74.7

 

reference

Intervention

2414

1685

69.8

−4.90

0.78 (0.56, 1.09), 0.15

5 – after touching patient surroundings

Intervention

Baseline

454

244

53.74

 

reference

Intervention

1394

754

54.09

0.35

1.01 (0.81, 1.27), 0.90

Control

Baseline

491

268

54.58

 

reference

Intervention

1244

675

54.26

−0.32

0.99 (0.76, 1.28), 0.92

  1. Abbreviations: HH hand hygiene, CI95 95% confidence interval; a result of logistic regression with ward as a cluster effect