Missed opportunities for hand hygiene at the patient's bedside: a pilot descriptive study

Affiliations

• ¹ Division of Health Systems and Public Health, Department of Global Health, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Stellenbosch University, Cape Town, South Africa. Electronic address: [email protected].
• ² Division of Infectious Diseases & HIV Medicine, Department of Medicine, Groote Schuur Hospital, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa.
• ³ Health Systems and Equity, The George Institute for Global Health, New Delhi, India.
• ⁴ Department of Health Sciences Research, Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Kochi, Kerala, India.
• ⁵ Chris Barnard Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Groote Schuur Hospital, Cape Town, South Africa.
• ⁶ Colorectal Unit, Groote Schuur Hospital, Cape Town, South Africa.
• ⁷ Department of Infection Control and Epidemiology, Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Kochi, Kerala, India.
• ⁸ Faculty of Health and Life Sciences, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK.
• ⁹ Division of Infectious Diseases & HIV Medicine, Department of Medicine, Groote Schuur Hospital, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa; Faculty of Health and Life Sciences, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK.