Source avec lien : American Journal of Infection Control, (Prépublication), 10/30/2019. 10.1016/j.ajic.2019.09.004
Comparer la surveillance par télévision en circuit fermé secrète (TVCF) à l’observation ouverte standard dans l’évaluation de la conduite des travailleurs de la santé qui s’occupent de patients infectés par des organismes multirésistants (ORDM) en matière d’hygiène des mains (HH). Il s’agissait d’une étude transversale dans une unité de soins intensifs généraux d’un hôpital universitaire de 1 000 lits. PMID: 31676159
Background
To compare covert closed-circuit television (CCTV) monitoring to standard overt observation in assessing the hand hygiene (HH) conduct of health care workers (HCWs) caring for patients infected with multidrug-resistant organisms (MDROs). This was a cross-sectional study in a general intensive care unit of a 1,000-bed university hospital.
Methods
Forty-six general intensive care unit HCWs (staff physicians, registered nurses, and auxiliary workers) caring for contact isolation MDRO-infected patients. The study incorporated the following 3 phases: phase 1, establishment of interrater reliability between 2 simultaneous observers using the overt observation method; phase 2, establishment of interrater reliability between 2 simultaneous observers using the CCTV method; and phase 3, simultaneous monitoring of HH by both methods to evaluate the suitability of CCTV as an alternative to direct observation of the HH conduct of HCWs caring for MDRO-infected patients.
Results
Overall, 1,104 opportunities to perform HH were documented during 49 observation sessions. The compliance rate observed by the overt method (37.3%) was significantly higher than that observed when only the covert method was used (26.5%). However, simultaneous overt-covert observations were found to have intraclass correlation coefficients of >0.85.
Conclusions
Covert CCTV observation of HCW HH compliance appears to provide a truer and more realistic picture than overt observation, probably because of its ability to neutralize the Hawthorne effect of overt observation. The high intraclass correlation coefficients between covert observation and overt observation supports this conclusion.