Researchers observed healthcare workers hand hygiene through five monitoring sessions of simultaneous overt and covert observation. They also added covert observation to a hand hygiene promotion program.
Here are the key takeaways:
1. Covert observation, when repeated, did not improve hand hygiene.
2. Compliance was over 90 percent under overt observation conditions.
3. Under covert conditions, compliance was below 50 percent.
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