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Table 2 Hand-to-surface exposures and hand hygiene actions

From: “First-person view” of pathogen transmission and hand hygiene – use of a new head-mounted video capture and coding tool

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Overall

ICU specialty

Trauma

Trauma

Trauma

Trauma

Cardio-surgery

Cardio-surgery

Cardio-surgery

General surgery

Cardio-surgery

General surgery

 

Length of coded care sequence; min:sec

34:50

34:50

34:50

36:20

31:17

32:38

33:31

16:39

32:19

16:32

296:30

Gender

M

F

F

F

F

F

M

M

F

F

 

Profession

N

N

N

N

N

N

N

P

N

P

 

HSE; n

494

472

314

495

474

671

553

176

526

47

4222

 HSE density; n/min

14,2

13,6

9,0

13,6

15,2

20,6

16,5

10,6

16,3

2,8

14,2

 Mean HSE duration (SD); sec

8.9 (16.0)

6.8 (10.0)

11.7 (17.0)

8.1 (18.5)

7.0 (14.9)

5.3 (10.5)

5.6 (11.8)

11.7 (15.1)

6.8 (10.7)

11.8 (26.5)

7.44 (14.1)

 Hand

  Right hand (%)

273 (55.3)

254 (53.8)

173 (55.1)

277 (56.0)

250 (52.7)

358 (53.4)

304 (55.0)

93 (52.8)

292 (55.5)

25 (53.2)

2299 (54.5)

  Left hand (%)

221 (44.7)

218 (46.2)

141 (44.9)

218 (44.0)

224 (47.3)

313 (46.7)

249 (45.0)

83 (47.2)

234 (44.5)

22 (46.8)

1923 (45.6)

 Gloves worn during HSE

  No (%)

355 (71.9)

420 (89.0)

221 (70.4)

214 (43.2)

406 (85.7)

671 (100)

334 (60.4)

176 (100)

474 (90.1)

47 (100)

3318 (78.6)

  Yes (%)

139 (28.1)

52 (11.0)

93 (29.6)

281 (56.78)

68 (14.4)

0

291 (39.6)

0

52 (9.9)

0

904 (21.4)

 Any surface inside patient zone (% of all HSE)

289 (58.5)

222 (47.0)

196 (62.4)

133 (26.9)

131 (27.6)

134 (20.0)

225 (40.7)

122 (69.3)

278 (52.85)

45 (95.7)

1775 (42.0)

  Patient intact skin (% of HSE inside patient zone)

12 (4.2)

30 (13.5)

12 (6.1)

13 (9.8)

0

15 (11.2)

45 (20.0)

8 (6.6)

29 (10.4)

14 (31.1)

178 (10.0)

  Mobile object inside patient zone (% of HSE inside patient zone)

241 (83.4)

163 (73.4)

130 (66.3)

112 (84.2)

117 (89.3)

80 (59.7)

168 (74.7)

109 (89.3)

234 (84.2)

29 (64.4)

1383 (77.9)

  Immobile surface inside patient zone (% of HSE inside patient zone)

36 (12.5)

29 (13.1)

54 (27.6)

8 (60.2)

14 (10.7)

39,829.1)

12 (5.3)

5 (4.1)

15 (5.4)

2 (4.4)

214 (12.1)

 Any surface outside patient zone (% of all HSE)

148 (30.0)

220 (46.6)

89 (28.3)

350 (70.7)

322 (67.9)

506 (75.4)

115 (20.8)

53 (30.1)

148 (28.1)

2 (4.3)

1953 (46.3)

  HCW own body (outside patient zone) (% of HSE outside patient zone)

7 (4.7)

36 (16.4)

25 (28.1)

47 (13.4)

60 (18.6)

107 (21.2)

79 (68.7)

50 (94.3)

28 (18.9)

0

439 (22.5)

  Mobile object outside patient zone (% of HSE outside patient zone)

114 (77.0)

160 (72.7)

49 (55.1)

235 (67.1)

175 (54.4)

346 (68.4)

18 (15.7)

3 (5.7)

92 (62.2)

2 (100)

1194 (61.1)

  Immobile surface outside patient zone (% of HSE outside patient zone)

27 (18.2)

24 (10.9)

15 (16.9)

68 (19.4)

87 (27.0)

53 (10.5)

18 (15.7)

0

28 (18.9)

0

320 (16.4)

 Any critical site (inside patient zone) (% of all HSE)

57 (11.5)

30 (6.4)

29 (9.2)

12 (2.4)

21 (4.4)

31 (4.6)

213 (38.5)

1 (0.6)

100 (19.0)

0

494 (11.7)

  Sterile equipment (% of HSE at critical site)

1 (1.8)

0

0

0

0

0

123 (57.8)

1 (100)

82 (82.0)

0

207 (41.9)

  Invasive device access (% of HSE at critical site)

55 (96.5)

30 (100)

29 (100)

9 (75.0)

21 (100)

21 (67.7)

65 (30.5)

0

8 (8.0)

0

238 (48.2)

  Mucous membrane (% of HSE at critical site)

1 (1.8)

0

0

3 (25.0)

0

0

0

0

0

0

4 (0.8)

  Wound (% of HSE at critical site)

0

0

0

0

0

10 (32.3)

25 (11.7)

0

10 (10.0)

0

45 (9.1)

Infectious risk events

41

42

43

26

44

80

117

31

72

2

508

 Patient colonization events

13

26

23

16

25

54

65

30

37

2

291

 Patient infection events

38

16

20

10

19

26

52

1

35

0

217

Hand hygiene actions; n

8

13

14

7

11

9

15

4

11

5

97

 Hand hygiene action at colonization event; n (% of patient colonization events, i.e. ‘adherence’)

0

3 (11.5)

2 (8.7)

1 (6.2)

3 (12.0)

2 (3.7)

0

2 (6.7)

1 (2.7)

0

14 (4.8)

 Hand hygiene action at infection event; n (% of patient infection events, i.e. ‘adherence’)

0

0

0

0

0

0

2 (3.9)

0

1 (2.9)

NA

3 (1.4)

 Average density of hand hygiene actions; n/hour

13.8

22.4

24.1

11.6

21.1

16.5

26.9

14.4

20.4

18.1

19.6

 Mean duration of hand hygiene actions (SD); sec

8.6 (4.7)

14.9 (6.6)

22.2 (11.0)

18.8 (7.4)

11.7 (4.5)

9.2 (4.8)

10.5 (9.6)

16.3 (12.0)

7.9 (3.7)

11.6 (6.2)

13.2 (8.6)

  1. Legend: HSE hand-to-surface exposure; ICU intensive care unit; F female; M male; N nurse; P physician; NA not applicable; SD standard deviation. Definition for patient colonization event and patient infection event s. main text