National Hand Hygiene Initiative compliance rate, 2012–
Indicator Attributes
Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Metadata item type: | Indicator |
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Indicator type: | Indicator |
Short name: | Hand hygiene compliance rate |
METEOR identifier: | 727746 |
Registration status: | Health, Standard 06/09/2023 |
Description: | Hand hygiene generally refers to the cleaning of hands by healthcare workers, using soap and water or alcohol-based hand rubs. Hand hygiene rates describe the number of compliant hand hygiene moments observed in relation to the total number of hand hygiene moments. |
Rationale: | Substantial evidence indicates that hand hygiene reduces the transmission of infection in healthcare. Effective hand hygiene prevents the onward spread of disease to others, and also limits contamination of the healthcare environment. Effective hand hygiene is a fundamental infection prevention and control strategy and a core aspect of standard precautions. |
Data quality statement: | National Hand Hygiene Data Collection, 2012- AIHW Data Quality Statements, Standard 01/02/2023 |
Collection and usage attributes | |
Computation description: | Hand hygiene rates are calculated by dividing the number of correct, observed hand hygiene moments by the total number of moments observed by auditors in a specified audit period. |
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Computation: | Compliance rate: (Numerator ÷ Denominator) x 100 Published against the agreed Australian Health Ministers' Advisory Council (AHMAC) benchmark. Confidence intervals:
where:
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Numerator: | Number of hand hygiene actions observed during a specified audit period |
Numerator data elements: | |
Denominator: | Total number of hand hygiene moments observed during an audit period |
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Disaggregation: | Facility/Hospital level: Number of observed moments and hand hygiene compliance rate (with confidence intervals), by:
National level: Number of observed moments and hand hygiene compliance rate (with confidence intervals), by:
Some disaggregation may result in numbers too small for publication. |
Disaggregation data elements: | |
Comments: | Suppression
Reporting Reporting of hospital- or facility-level data may result in numbers too small for publication.
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Representational attributes | |
Representation class: | Percentage |
Data type: | Real |
Unit of measure: | Service event |
Format: | Observed moments: NN[NNN] Compliance rate: N[NN].N |
Data source attributes | |
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Accountability attributes | |
Reporting requirements: | Reporting is in line with the audit periods, which is at a 3 months, 4 months and 5 months interval. Audit periods are:
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Organisation responsible for providing data: | Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care |
Accountability: | The Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care is responsible for the development, collection and initial reporting of hand hygiene data. |
Benchmark: | The national hand hygiene benchmark was set by the former Australian Health Ministers' Advisory Council (AHMAC). In October 2015, AHMAC endorsed a revised national benchmark of 80% hand hygiene compliance, for the purposes of reporting. AHMAC also endorsed reporting against this benchmark for all healthcare worker groups and for each of the five moments. The revised benchmark came into effect in 2017. |
Other issues caveats: | Data collection exemptions were made by the Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care in response to COVID-19: Advice 20/01: Hand hygiene data collection was not mandatory for Audit 2, 2020 Advice 21/05: Hand hygiene data collection was not mandatory for Audit 3, 2021, Audit 1, 2022 and Audit 2, 2022. |
Release date: | 31/12/2012 |
Source and reference attributes | |
Submitting organisation: | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare |
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