American Journal of Infection Control 41 (2013) 1107-8

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American Journal of Infection Control

American Journal of Infection Control

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Variability in hand hygiene practices among internal medicine interns Lauren Block MD, MPH a, *, Robert Habicht MD b, Fareedat O. Oluyadi BA c, Albert W. Wu MD, MPH d, e, Sanjay V. Desai MD d, Timothy Niessen MD, MPH d, Kathryn Novello Silva MD b, Nora Oliver MD, MPH f, Leonard Feldman MD d a

Department of Medicine, Hofstra North Shore-LIJ School of Medicine, Hempstead, NY Department of Medicine, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD c Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY d Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD e Department of Health Policy and Management, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD f Department of Medicine, University of Maryland Medical Center, Baltimore, MD b

Key Words: Graduate medical education Patient safety Quality of care Prevention

Hand hygiene compliance remains suboptimal among physicians despite quality improvement efforts. We observed hand hygiene compliance among 29 medicine interns at 2 large academic institutions. Overall compliance was 75%. Although 4 interns averaged