Compliance with and completeness of hand rubbing
Overall hand hygiene compliance before patient contact
increased significantly by 26.3% from 352 of 512
(68.8%) pretest to 599 of 689 (86.9%) posttest; p < 0.001
(Table 1). Hand hygiene compliance after patient contact
also increased significantly by 22.5% from 327 of 512
(68.9%) pretest to 579 of 689 (84%) posttest; p < 0.001.