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Table 6 Hand hygiene and gloving compliance outcomes

From: GloveCare: a pilot study in preparation for a cluster crossover randomized controlled trial of non-sterile glove-based care in preventing late-onset infection in the NICU

 

Hand Hygiene compliance in standard arm—number of HH audits

n (%)

Hand hygiene compliance in GloveCare arm—number of HH audits

n (%)

Hand hygiene compliance: standard vs GloveCare

Odds ratio (95% CI)

P-value

Glove compliance in GloveCare arm

n (%), p-value

Compliance in GloveCare arm: hand hygiene vs gloving

Odds ratio

(95% CI), p-value

P-value

Moment 1 Total

510 (87.03)

346 (78.28)

1.86 (1.34, 2.59)

<0.001

525 (66.20)

1.83 (1.40, 2.41)

<0.001

 Moment 1 touch patient

266 (90.80)

194 (80.83)

2.33 (1.40, 3.89)

<0.001

371 (78.60)

1.14 (0.77, 1.69)

0.487

 Moment 1 Touch patient environment

244 (83.28)

152 (75.25)

1.63 (1.05, 2.55)

0.028

154 (47.98)

3.30 (2.24, 4.85)

<0.001

Moment 2

56 (40.58)

28 (28.28)

1.73 (1.00, 3.01)

0.051

75 (52.45)

0.36 (0.21, 0.62)

<0.001

Moment 3

97 (78.86)

111 (77.08)

1.11 (0.62, 1.98)

0.727

108 (85.71)

0.56 (0.30, 1.06)

0.071

Moment 4 Totala

844 (87.37)

634 (80.76)

1.65 (1.27, 2.14)

<0.001

409 (83.30)

0.84 (0.63, 1.13)

0.254

 Moment 4 touch patient

353 (86.31)

434 (79.49)

1.63 (1.15, 2.31)

0.006

285 (84.57)

0.71 (0.49, 1.01)

0.059

 Moment 4 touch patient environment

286 (84.37)

312 (84.55)

0.99 (0.66, 1.48)

0.945

124 (80.52)

1.06 (0.61, 1.84)

0.258

  1. aHand hygiene compliance in GloveCare arm Moment 4 does not add up because touch patient and touch patient environment can be duplicate events