Handwashing

Hospitals should adhere to hand hygiene best practices identified by Leapfrog's National Hand Hygiene Expert Panel and adopted in part from the World Health Organization’s Hand Hygiene Self-Assessment Framework.

The measure assesses a hospital's adherence to best practices in the following five (5) domains:

• Monitoring, including monitoring proper hand hygiene technique
• Feedback, including evaluation and use of compliance data
• Training and Education, including demonstrations of technique
• Infrastructure, including hand sanitizer dispensers
• Culture, including leadership buy-in

Reporting Period

• 2024

Patients Included in the Measure

• Inpatients (Patients who are admitted to the hospital for at least one overnight stay)
• Outpatients (Patients who are admitted and discharged on the same day)
• Adults and Children