Reimbursing for hand hygiene compliance
Infection Control Weekly Monitor, January 13, 2010
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Like most IPs, are you racking your brain for ways to improve hand hygiene compliance? Ever think about just using cold, hard cash as an incentive?
A recent blog post in the New York Times writes about a Texas Hospital that raised their compliance above 98% and won a national award through an incentivized hand hygiene bonus program.
To read more about the program, click here.
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