Hand hygiene and needleless connector decontamination for peripheral intravenous catheter care—time and motion observational study

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Slater, Karen
Cooke, Marie
Scanlan, Emma
Rickard, Claire M
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2019
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Good hand hygiene and “scrub the hub” practices are important to prevent bloodstream infections. This observational study (n = 108) found high compliance with “scrubbing the hub,” although scrub time was shorter than the recommended duration (average 6.1 seconds). Compliance with hand hygiene before medication preparation (33%) and before medication administration (43%) showed room for improvement compared with postadministration (65%), the emergency setting and glove use were associated with poorer compliance (P <.01).

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American Journal of Infection Control

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Nursing

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Public health

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