Hand Hygiene Compliance Monitoring

Compliance with World Health Organization (WHO) “Five Moments of Hand Hygiene” opportunities by healthcare workers in acute hospitals. Data from hand hygiene audit tools (MS Excel) are collated by HPSC via the MicroB online tool and the results published. **Purpose:** In scope: To support overall multi-faceted strategy for the control and prevention of infectious diseases by providing standardised measure of observational hand hygiene compliance for acute hospitals. **Coverage:** 42 public and nine private acute hospitals contributed to the data in Oct 2021. This represents an even geographical spread across Ireland. Data collected twice per year in May/June and Oct/Nov.

Health Category

Registries

Theme

Chronic Disease Mental Health Public Health

Language

Eng

Access Rights

Restricted

Metadata

Field	Value
Access Rights	http://publications.europa.eu/resource/authority/access-right/RESTRICTED
Contact	Email data@health-protection-su.ie Name Health Protection Surveillance Centre
Frequency	http://publications.europa.eu/resource/authority/frequency/MONTHLY
Health Category	http://health.europa.eu/ehds/category/registries
Health Theme	http://health.europa.eu/theme/chronic-disease http://health.europa.eu/theme/mental-health http://health.europa.eu/theme/public-health
Id	23889fc6-799d-4729-860f-8a501be58cd0
Identifier	NDC-0034
Isopen	True
Issued	2011-01-01
Language	http://publications.europa.eu/resource/authority/language/ENG
License Id	cc-by
License Title	Creative Commons Attribution
License Url	http://www.opendefinition.org/licenses/cc-by
Max Typical Age	85
Metadata Created	2026-03-19T17:16:52.978155
Metadata Modified	2026-03-19T17:16:52.978158
Min Typical Age	18
Modified	2023-07-20
Name	hand-hygiene-compliance-monitoring-34
Notes	Compliance with World Health Organization (WHO) “Five Moments of Hand Hygiene” opportunities by healthcare workers in acute hospitals. Data from hand hygiene audit tools (MS Excel) are collated by HPSC via the MicroB online tool and the results published. Purpose: In scope: To support overall multi-faceted strategy for the control and prevention of infectious diseases by providing standardised measure of observational hand hygiene compliance for acute hospitals. Coverage: 42 public and nine private acute hospitals contributed to the data in Oct 2021. This represents an even geographical spread across Ireland. Data collected twice per year in May/June and Oct/Nov.
Num Resources	0
Num Tags	5
Number Of Records	967916
Number Of Unique Individuals	311029
Private	False
Provenance	Trained infection and control staff conduct hospital-wide audits of hand hygiene compliance by the facility’s own healthcare workers. Twice yearly (June & Oct) national audits are conducted, of 7 wards per facility with 30 hand hygiene opportunities per each ward audited. Automated data upload, analysis, report generation and approval for publication facilitated via HPSC’s online tool, MicroB.
Publisher	Name Health Protection Surveillance Centre Type http://purl.org/adms/publishertype/NationalAuthority
Spatial Coverage	Text Ireland Uri http://publications.europa.eu/resource/authority/country/IRL
Temporal Coverage	End 2025-10-23 Start 2011-01-01
Theme	http://publications.europa.eu/resource/authority/data-theme/HEAL
Title	Hand Hygiene Compliance Monitoring
Type	dataset

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