Compliance of Health Care Workers with Hand Hygiene Practices: Independent Advantages of Overt and Covert Observers
Figure 2
Hand hygiene compliance rates according to professional category of the healthcare workers and type of observers.
Compliance observed by medical students (MS) was significantly lower as than by infection control nurses (ICNs) and unit HH ambassadors (UAs) (all P<0.001). The numbers in parenthesis are the hand hygiene opportunities. T-bar represents one standard deviation.