Amid the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, select units at the University of Chicago Medical Center achieved daily hand hygiene compliance rates of more than 90%, and some even hit 100% at one point, data show.
Though hand hygiene “is a cornerstone of infection control,” compliance averages only 50% nationwide, Sonya Makhni, MD, MBA, a clinical informatics fellow, hospitalist and Master of Science in Biomedical Informatics candidate at the University of Chicago, and colleagues wrote in JAMA Internal Medicine. “Audit and feedback can improve compliance, but audits