Table 3.
Location of highly contaminated mobile handwashing stations (mHWS, n = 281) according to hospital area matched with user groups
| End–users (numbers of mHWS) | Hospital areas (total number of mHWS) | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Administrative & Support areas (n = 40) |
Public areas (n = 21) |
General patient areas (n = 127) |
Specialized patient areas (n = 70) |
Other patient-related services (n = 23) |
Total (n = 281) |
|
| Non–clinical staff (n = 8) | 1 (1) | – | – | – | – | 1 (1) |
| Visitors only (n = 11) | 1 | 1 | – | – | 2 | |
| Healthcare workers only (n = 86) | 6 (1) | 1 | 6 (2) | 17 (7) | 3 | 33 (10) |
| Patients and healthcare workers (n = 38) | – | – | 7 | 4 (2) | 2 | 13 (2) |
| Patients, visitors and caretakers* (n = 17) | – | 1 | 4 | – | – | 5 |
| Visitors and healthcare workers* (n = 38) | 3 | 5 (2) | 1 | 2 | 11 (2) | |
| Patients, healthcare workers, visitors and caretakers* (n = 83) | – | 1 (1) | 26 (9) | 5 (2) | 2 | 34 (12) |
| Total highly contaminated mHWS | 11 (2) | 3 (1) | 49 (13) | 27 (11) | 9 | 99 (27) |
| *Mixed users (n = 138) | 3 | 2 (1) | 35 (11) | 6 (2) | 4 | 50 (14) |
Highly contaminated mHWS were defined as mHWS of which water and/or soap were contaminated at concentrations > 10,000 Colony Forming Units/ml. Data in the cells represent mHWS, numbers in brackets and italics represent numbers of highly contaminated mHWS with multidrug resistant (MDR) organisms. Mixed users of mHWS (indicated with “*”) refers to mHWS that were used by community-based persons (visitors and caretakers) as well as by healthcare workers and/or patients. For details of hospital areas, see Table 1