“Clean hands safe babies”: a quality improvement project to improve hand hygiene compliance among healthcare workers at neonatal intensive care unit (NICU), teaching hospital Badulla.

Abstract

Proper hand hygiene (HH) is a mainstay of infection prevention, especially in neonatal intensive care units (NICUs) where neonates are prone to healthcare-associated infections. An audit was conducted at the NICU of Teaching Hospital Badulla to assess HH compliance among healthcare workers (HCWs), followed by an intervention and re-audit to measure improvement.