Research Critiques on Hand Hygiene

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RESEARCH CRITIQUES ON HAND HYGIENE
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Introduction
Hand hygiene Practicing is one of the operative and the simple practice used in order
to inhibit the spread of pathogens and infections. The measure of cleaning individual’s hands
is found to be decreasing the spread of the bacteria, viruses and other pathogens, which is
also been observed to include various microbes which have a resisting nature towards various
antibiotics and has the affinity to end up causing severe circumstances if cross the threshold
inside any human body (Sahoo, Priyadarshini, Choudhury, Pati&Mohapatra, 2018). Agreeing
to the Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the habit of practicing good hand
hygiene is effective in avoiding infections especially those of the antibiotic resistant
infection. It has also been witnessed that in a hospital or health care settings, the care workers
are the one who are seen to be maintaining reduced rate of hand hygiene when compared to
the exercise rate they should (Smiddy, O'Connell & Creedon, 2015). The assignment will
focus on 4 research articles; where two articles uses quantitative research design and two uses
qualitative research design in order to assess information regarding the hand hygiene practice
and their effect on promoting health focusing on the PICOT Question asked.
PICOT question: How can hand washing benefit health?

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Quantitative study
Article 1: Motivating Process Compliance Through Individual Electronic Monitoring:
An Empirical Examination of Hand Hygiene in Healthcare
Staats, B. R., Dai, H., Hofmann, D., & Milkman, K. L. (2016). Motivating process
compliance through individual electronic monitoring: An empirical examination of hand
hygiene in healthcare. Management Science, 63(5), 1563-
1585.https://doi.org/10.1287/mnsc.2015.2400
Article 2: Comparative efficacy of interventions to promote hand hygiene in hospital:
systematic review and network meta-analysis
Luangasanatip, N., Hongsuwan, M., Limmathurotsakul, D., Lubell, Y., Lee, A. S.,
Harbarth, S., ... & Cooper, B. S. (2015). Comparative efficacy of interventions to promote
hand hygiene in hospital: systematic review and network meta-analysis. bmj, 351,
h3728.https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.h3728
Background of the study
In Article 1, the aim of the research was to study the motivating process observance
with the use of Individual Electronic Monitoring which is an experiential assessment of the
Hand Hygiene practice in the health division. The researcher conducted the study using an
exceptional method which was the use of radio frequency identification (RFID) in almost 71
health care units (Sakihama et al., 2016). They observed that the process of the electronically
monitoring each and every individual obedience has resulted into a greater and a positive
raise in the obedience towards the health hygiene practice.
In article 2, the aim of the researcher was to study the comparative effectiveness of
the interventions that has been proposed in instruction to promote the hand hygiene
application in the health care organization using systematic assessment and also system meta-

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analysis (White et al., 2015). As a source of data the researchers used NHS Economic
Evaluation Database, Embase, Cochrane Library, CINAHL, Medline, NHS Centre for
Reviews and Dissemination, and the EPOC register.
Method of the study
In article 1, the researcher uses quantitative research design, as the method that was in
order to conduct the research the radio frequency identification (RFID) technology was used
in order to help the health care workers to progress their hand cleanliness obedience (Chassin,
Mayer & Nether, 2015). Whereas in article 2, the researcher uses systematic review study
design and meta-analysis in order to collect appropriate information regarding the outcome of
the research objective. The study is conducted by researcher on the basis of PRISMA
guidelines. The researcher did not involve any patient in order to measure the outcome. The
study used various reviewed articles in order to study the outcome.
Result of the study
The result of the Article 1 provided the data from equally before and after of the
commencement of the specific electronic monitoring using the pilot samples. Throughout 71
health care divisions, and approx. 195 out of the 5,247 health care provides especially those
who have an experience of around 1,159,338 number of hand hygiene chances. They were
then elected as the pilot testers and also they received an on the go RFID badge. They were
briefly instructed to about the practice of wear their provided badge while working especially
throughout the pre-activation phase of the unit (Cruz & Bashtawi, 2016). These health care
providers were evidently instructed that their role as pilot testers will involve their hand
hygiene obedience assessment and also the rates will be kept on tracking by the Proventix but
it will not by performed by the managers. Because the pilot testers’ activity was tracked
which included together before and after the commencement of the individual monitoring, the