Using the Targeted Solutions Tool to improve hand hygiene compliance is associated with decreased health care–associated infections.
Shabot M, Chassin MR, France A-C, et al. Using the Targeted Solutions Tool® to Improve Hand Hygiene Compliance Is Associated with Decreased Health Care-Associated Infections. Jt Comm J Qual Patient Saf. 2016;42(1):6-17.
Following implementation of the web-based Targeted Solutions Tool in a 12-hospital health system, hand hygiene rates improved from a baseline rate of 58% to about 95%. Over the same period, rates of central line–associated bloodstream infections and ventilator-associated pneumonia both declined by more than 40%.