Establishment of a national surveillance system for alcohol-based hand rub consumption and change in consumption over 4 years

Michael Behnke; Petra Gastmeier; Christine Geffers; Nadine Mönch; Christiane Reichardt

doi:10.1086/665729

Establishment of a national surveillance system for alcohol-based hand rub consumption and change in consumption over 4 years

Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol. 2012 Jun;33(6):618-20. doi: 10.1086/665729. Epub 2012 Apr 19.

Authors

Michael Behnke¹, Petra Gastmeier, Christine Geffers, Nadine Mönch, Christiane Reichardt

Affiliation

¹ National Reference Center for Surveillance of Nosocomial Infections, Berlin, Germany.

PMID: 22561718
DOI: 10.1086/665729

Abstract

Germany established a national surveillance system for alcohol-based hand rub consumption (AHC) in 2008. In 2010, the median AHC was 83 mL/patient-day in 543 intensive care units (ICUs) and 18 mL/patient-day in 4,638 non-ICUs. There was a median increase in AHC of 35.9% (P < .01) in 159 hospitals that participated in the surveillance system for 4 years.

Publication types

Evaluation Study
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Alcohols*
Anti-Infective Agents, Local*
Benchmarking
Drug Utilization / trends*
Germany
Hand Disinfection / methods*
Hand Disinfection / standards
Hospital Units / standards
Hospital Units / trends*
Humans
Infection Control / methods*
Infection Control / standards
Intensive Care Units / standards
Intensive Care Units / trends
Retrospective Studies

Substances

Alcohols
Anti-Infective Agents, Local