Table 1.

 Characteristics of two groups of healthcare workers randomised to handrubbing with alcohol based solution or handwashing

	Handrubbing (n=12)	Handwashing (n=11)
Nurses	5	6
Nurse assistants	6	3
Nursing students	1	2
No of patient care activities included	59	55
Median (IQR) duration of patient care activities (min)	11 (5-20)	15 (7-25)
No (%) activities when gloves were worn	51 (86)	46 (83)
Cumulative No (IQR) of hand hygiene procedures performed during monitoring sessions	11 (7-15)	8 (7-13)
Median (IQR) duration of monitoring sessions (min)	91 (58-177)	75 (35-132)
No of opportunities observed	184	158
Proportion (95% CI) compliance with hand hygiene	71 (45-96)	64 (36-93)

IQR=interquartile range.