요양병원 인증제 시행이 환자안전 관리활동에 미치는 영향: 손위생을 중심으로

Abstract

The purpose of the study is to examine healthcare workers’ hand hygiene perception, knowledge, and self-reported compliance in accreditated long-term care hospitals in Korea. Perceptions on hand hygiene before and after the national accreditation are compared. We further investigated factors associated with perception, knowledge, and compliance. The introduction of national mandatory accreditation on long-term care hospitals since 2013 resulted in improved hand hygiene compliance and perception among hospital workers. Self-reported hand hygiene compliance rate was 89.7%. Perception is strongly in favor of hand hygiene compliance. Additionally, education level, profession department, and hand hygiene education exposure increased the likelihood of self-reported hand hygiene compliance. Results have implications for efforts to increase hand hygiene compliance rate and improve patient safety culture in long-term care hospitals.