TY - JOUR T1 - Promoting the role of patients in improving hand hygiene compliance amongst health care workers JF - BMJ Quality Improvement Reports JO - BMJ Qual Improv Report DO - 10.1136/bmjquality.u210787.w4336 VL - 5 IS - 1 SP - u210787.w4336 AU - Maryam Ahmed Awaji AU - Khaled Al-Surimi Y1 - 2016/07/01 UR - http://bmjopenquality.bmj.com/content/5/1/u210787.w4336.abstract N2 - Hand hygiene is one of the fundamental measures necessary for reducing healthcare-associated infections. The adherence of health care workers to safe hand hygiene practices is low worldwide, despite evidence showing compliance with hand hygiene guidelines decreases infection rate. This project focuses on the role of patients in promoting healthcare workers' compliance with hand hygiene practices. Several plan-do-study-act (PDSA) cycles were conducted to test interventions which aimed to empower patients and increase staff members' adherence to hand hygiene practices. The initial findings presented on the run chart demonstrate that compliance among healthcare workers increased with the interventions; there was an increase of 15% compliance during the 10 days of project testing. We will need to collect more data to show continued and sustained improvement. Patients can play an important role in promoting safe care and hand hygiene practices. ER -