Modelling the costs and consequences of reducing healthcare-associated infections by improving hand hygiene in an average hospital in England.

Julian F GuestTomas KeatingDinah GouldNeil Wigglesworth

Published in: BMJ open (2019)

If the introduction of the electronic audit and feedback system into current practice in a hypothetical general hospital in England can improve hand hygiene compliance among front-line HCPs leading to a reduction in the incidence of HCAIs by ≥15%, it would potentially afford the NHS a cost-effective intervention.

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