"Hands of fame": a new tool to improve dedication of key opinion leader for hand hygiene

Introduction / objectives Compliance of hand hygiene is frequently less than optimal and heavily depends on the dedication of the key opinion leaders. There are few tools to support their role model for hand hygiene. Dedicated days, information campaigns and similar activities lead to tremendous, but short-lived impact on the hand hygiene compliance. Psychological studies have shown, that a public statement improves compliance with the statement. We therefore searched for a tool who to trigger a public long-term statement of the key opinion leaders of the hospital.