August 10, 2011
Stat of the Week Nominations: August 6-12 2011
Here’s the nominations for this week’s Stat of the Week competition. If you’d like to comment on or debate any of these, please do so below!
- “Low hand-hygiene rate putting patients at risk“
- “Girls of all ethnicity that are not white talked about this“
- “The top decile have 52 per cent of the country’s wealth, compared with only 25 per cent of the country’s income“
- “Debt isn’t the reason for cutting public services, it’s the excuse“
- “17% of Fibre Optic network damage due to squirrels.“
- “Want your child to love veggies? Start early. Very early.“
- “Youth unemployment and cuts to apprenticeships.“
- “27% of employees would recommend their workplace if it were environmentally irresponsible.“
The hand-washing article seems to crop up regularly (probably because of the “ew” factor).
I wonder what the 40% means exactly though – 40% of *staff* don’t *always* wash their hands before and after touching a patient, before and after a procedure, and after touching patient surroundings.
It’d be interesting to also know the percentage of times they don’t wash their hands – i.e. are those 40% of staff almost-always washing their hands, just that sometimes it’s not practical (for one reason or another) to do it each time?
I wonder what the compliance rate is overseas, for those working with food, or just people in general ;)
13 years ago
This hand-washing one is interesting – there is a hand-washing app for handheld devices being rolled out amongst some of the DHB’s, which the nurses are supposed to use to record their hand-washing activity… No-one seems to have thought about the new/extra germs being passed across the device if they haven’t properly washed their hands when they do the data entry!
13 years ago
The Youth unemployment one is interesting. The way politicos redefine statistics for their own purposes is always worth calling out when they are trying to make something sound like proof of theory when it does nothing of the sort.
13 years ago