Increase of alcohol based hand rub consumption in hospitals participating in the German surveillance system
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Methods All hospitals participating in HAND-KISS send annually unit based AHC data to the HAND-KISS module. HAND-KISS is calculating AHC in Milliliter per patient day (ml/PD) stratified by specialty and by intensive care units (ICU’s) and Non-ICU’s. Reference data and the AHC distribution of 129 hospitals that provided baseline data in 2007 and follow up data in 2008 and 2009 were calculated. We grouped AHC baseline data of 2007 in quartiles and tested changes of AHC over three years between these groups using the Kruskal-Wallies-test. The following settings were analyzed: whole hospitals, ICU’s only and Non-ICU’s.
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