Promoting Hand Hygiene in Long-Term Care to Reduce the Transmission of COVID-19

促进长期护理中的手部卫生，以减少 COVID-19 的传播

• 批准号: 552459-2020
• 负责人: Cross, Stephen
• 金额: $ 5.46万
• 依托单位: Conestoga College Institute of Technology & Advanced Learning
• 依托单位国家: 加拿大
• 项目类别: Applied Research Rapid Response to COVID-19
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 加拿大
• 起止时间: 2020-01-01 至 2021-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/ase-oro/Details-Detailles_eng.asp?id=696164
• 关键词: Promoting; Hand; Hygiene; Long; Term

Improving hand hygiene (HH) is one of the most effective solutions to reduce COVID-19 from spreading in long-term care (LTC) homes. Unfortunately, caregivers in LTC homes do not consistently practice HH before and after resident interaction. Hygienic Echo Inc., a company led by Dr. Geoff Fernie, has developed a device, called the Buddy Badge, which is a smart monitoring system that detects HH opportunities, generates HH reminder signals when needed and enables monitoring individual and group HH performance. Testing of the Buddy Badge in hospitals has shown it is effective and maintains significant increases in staff HH performance. The aim with this proposal is to explore the use of the Buddy Badge System in LTC, where HH compliance is very difficult to monitor. We aim to: 1) customize the system to include the different LTC staff roles; 2) differentiate between different zones with infection precautions (i.e., resident rooms, communal bathrooms, dirty utility rooms, etc.); 3) tailor HH prompts for staff to support HH compliance working in large, shared-occupancy zones (i.e., dining rooms, rec rooms); and 4) explore the relationship between staff's Buddy Badge use and occurrence and/or spread of COVID-19 in LTC.

改善手卫生（HH）是减少Covid-19的最有效解决方案之一 长期护理（LTC）房屋。不幸的是，LTC房屋中的护理人员之前并不始终练习HH 在居民互动之后。由Geoff Fernie博士领导的公司Hygienic Echo Inc.开发了一款设备， 称为伙伴徽章，这是一个检测HH机会的智能监控系统，生成HH 提醒信号在需要时可以监视个人和组HH性能。测试 医院的Buddy徽章表明，这是有效的，并保持了HH绩效的大幅度提高。 该建议的目的是探索LTC中伙伴徽章系统的使用，HH合规性是 很难监控。我们的目标是：1）自定义系统以包括不同的LTC员工角色； 2） 区分具有感染预防措施的不同区域（即居民房间，公共浴室， 肮脏的杂物间等）； 3）量身定制HH提示员工支持HH合规性， 共享占用区域（即餐厅，Rec Rooms）； 4）探索员工的好友之间的关系 徽章的使用和发生和/或covid-19在LTC中的传播。