August 10, 2011

Stat of the Week Nominations: August 6-12 2011

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    Rachel Cunliffe

    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

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    Mark

    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

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    Amelia White

    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