| Title: |
Patient experiences of partnering with healthcare professionals for hand hygiene compliance: a systematic review |
| Authors: |
Butenko, Samantha; Lockwood, Craig; McArthur, Alexa |
| Source: |
JBI Database of Systematic Reviews and Implementation Reports ; volume 15, issue 6, page 1645-1670 ; ISSN 2202-4433 |
| Publisher Information: |
Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) |
| Publication Year: |
2017 |
| Description: |
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Background Healthcare-associated infections pose a significant risk to patients in acute healthcare settings such as hospitals. Increasingly, patients are encouraged to be active participants and partner with healthcare professionals to positively influence their own safety and overall experience throughout their healthcare journey. Patient-focused safety initiatives include the empowerment of patients to be active partners with healthcare professionals in order to influence the hand hygiene behaviors and compliance of the healthcare professionals providing care to them. Partnering within the context of healthcare, and between the patient and healthcare professional, can be considered as a general concept that involves the empowerment of patients to participate in their care. Terms used to describe patient partnering within healthcare vary and include patient participation, patient-centeredness, patient empowerment and patient engagement. Although patients appear generally to have positive attitudes and intentions about engaging in their safety and partnering in the healthcare setting, their intentions and actual behaviors vary considerably. Patients appear less likely to engage in behaviors that require questioning of the perceived or real authority of healthcare professionals. A patient's intention and subsequent act of partnering with healthcare professionals for hand hygiene compliance by the healthcare professional are influenced by complex internal, external and social factors as well as cultural, behavioral and systematic factors. Objectives To determine the best available evidence in relation to the experiences of the patient partnering with healthcare professionals for hand hygiene compliance. Inclusion criteria Types of participants The current review considered qualitative (critical or interpretive) papers that included adult in-patients and healthcare professionals (medical and nursing staff), in the acute hospital-care setting. Adult was considered to be any person aged 18 years or ... |
| Document Type: |
article in journal/newspaper |
| Language: |
English |
| DOI: |
10.11124/jbisrir-2016-003001 |
| Availability: |
https://doi.org/10.11124/jbisrir-2016-003001; https://journals.lww.com/01938924-201706000-00017 |
| Accession Number: |
edsbas.F50531C9 |
| Database: |
BASE |