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Do you know how much hand sanitizer and soap your surgical team goes through every week? Coupled with direct observation, the simple act of tracking your hand-hygiene compliance is a good way to improve compliance. Our state hospital association asks each facility to measure the amount of liquid hand sanitizer and soap it uses. We then use a simple formula to measure compliance. You divide the number of surgical patients by the number of empty sanitizer and soap containers. Every surgical patient should generate 72 hand-sanitizing episodes of about 1ml each, according to research pioneered by Maryanne McGuckin, DrScEd, MT, at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia.
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