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Comparison of hand hygiene compliance before and after intervention
| Health care worker category | Compliance (%) |
P value | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pre-intervention (%) | Post-intervention (%) | ||
| Staff nurses | 21.48 | 61.59 | 0.0000 |
| Nursing students | 9.86 | 33.33 | 0.0000 |
| Resident trainees | 21.62 | 60.71 | 0.0000 |
| Consultants | 22 | 57.14 | 0.0001 |
| Physiotherapists | 70 | 75.95 | 0.413 |
| Paramedical* | 10.71 | 55.45 | 0.0000 |
Paramedical staff included technical staff, ward helpers and radiographers
