Technical note: Assessment of blinding of hand hygiene observers in randomized controlled trials of hand hygiene interventions

Chris Fuller; Sarah Besser; Barry D. Cookson; Ellen Fragaszy; Julian Gardiner; John McAteer; Susan Michie; Joanne Savage; Sheldon P. Stone

doi:10.1016/j.ajic.2009.10.005

Technical note: Assessment of blinding of hand hygiene observers in randomized controlled trials of hand hygiene interventions

Chris Fuller, Sarah Besser, Barry D. Cookson, Ellen Fragaszy, Julian Gardiner, John McAteer, Susan Michie, Joanne Savage, Sheldon P. Stone^*

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Abstract

Trials evaluating interventions to improve health care workers' hand hygiene compliance use directly observed compliance as a primary outcome measure. Observers should be blinded to the intervention and the effectiveness of blinding assessed to prevent systematic bias. The literature has not addressed this issue, and this study describes a robust and pragmatic method for assessing the adequacy of blinding in hand hygiene intervention trials.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	332-334
Number of pages	3
Journal	American journal of infection control
Volume	38
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ajic.2009.10.005
Publication status	Published - 1 May 2010

Keywords

blinding
compliance
Hand hygiene
observation
reliability
training
trials

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