Abstract
This study aimed to describe the compliance rate of healthcare providers to care bundles in a tertiary hospital in Riyadh Region. The overall compliance rate of hand hygiene was low (less than 80%). The overall compliance rates of urinary catheter bundle, central line insertion bundle, and central line maintenance bundle were high (more than 95 %). The compliance rate to SSI bundle, ventilator bundle, safe injection practice, and using personal protective equipment was high. It is important to increase the compliance rate of the care bundles elements to 95 percent or greater, particularly the compliance to hand hygiene to improve patient care.
Highlights
Healthcare associated infections are an (VAP), catheter-associated urinary tract infection important threat to patient safety and include (CAUTI) and surgical site infection (SSI) [1]
The data included in the study were overall hand hygiene compliance rate, personal protective equipment compliance rate, overall safe injection practice compliance rate, overall urinary catheter bundle compliance rate, overall ventilator bundle compliance rate, overall central line insertion bundle compliance rate, overall central line maintenance bundle compliance rate, and overall SSI bundle compliance rate
The study found that the overall compliance rate of hand hygiene was low
Summary
Healthcare associated infections are an (VAP), catheter-associated urinary tract infection important threat to patient safety and include (CAUTI) and surgical site infection (SSI) [1]. A care bundle identifies a set of key interventions deriving from evidence-based guidelines that, when implemented, are expected to improve patients’ health outcomes [7]. The aim of care bundles is to improve health outcomes by facilitating and promoting changes in patient care and to encourage guideline compliance [8]. Care bundles that have shown significant impact on the prevention of HAI include sets of bundles for the prevention of central line-associated bloodstream infections (CLABSIs), bundle for the prevention of catheter-associated urinary tract infections (CAUTIs), bundle for the prevention of VAP, and bundle for the prevention of SSIs. other important interventions include safe injection practices, using personal protective equipment and hand hygiene. Richards et al stated that the application of evidence-based practices to reduce catheter-associated urinary tract infections decrease the infection ratio from 2.34 to an infection ratio of less than 1.0 [12]
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