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Hand Hygiene Of Doctors Open To Question
Preventing spread of infection depends on hand washing, but according to the new findings, doctors are not washing their hands enough in hospitals.
The study comes from the University of New South Wales and the New South Wales Clinical Excellence Commission. It found nurses had the best handwashing practices, and they were also more willing to improve.
Doctors would be shocked by the results, said Associate Professor Mary-Louise McLaws who is director of Public Health Programs at University of NSW.
"No doctor thinks 'I'm going to work today to infect my patients'", Dr McLaws said.
"Doctors are going to be horrified when they see these data."
A Clean Hands Save Lives campaign was introduced to all of NSW's public hospitals in early 2006, and its success in changing staff behaviour was monitored over the following year.
All staff were urged to use an alcohol-based solution to wash their hands both before and after patient contact, as posters were erected and themed T-shirts also worn to promote the campaign.
Dr McLaws said it resulted in an overall improvement in hand hygiene but the gains were not uniform and doctors were the poorest performers.
The proportion of nurses who cleaned their hands after patient interaction rose from 54.5 per cent before the campaign, to just over 65 per cent at the end.
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