Method for determining hand hygiene compliance

A method for monitoring compliance with hand hygiene guidelines by workers in a target facility comprising:

• observing workers in a studied facility during an observation period to determine a study benchmark number of hand hygiene opportunities;
• observing conditions of the studied facility during the observation period;
• comparing conditions of the studied facility and the study benchmark number of hand hygiene opportunities to identify facility characterizing conditions with which the study benchmark number of hand hygiene opportunities is correlated by a characterizing condition relationship;
• observing facility characterizing conditions for the target facility;
• determining a benchmark number of hand hygiene opportunities for the target facility based on facility characterizing conditions for the target facility and the characterizing condition relationship;
• monitoring worker hand hygiene events in the target facility to determine a monitored number of hand hygiene events;
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• comparing the number of monitored hand hygiene events to the benchmark number of hand hygiene opportunities for the target facility.