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Self-estimated hand hygiene compliance among health care workers versus actual compliance rates: Most health care workers overestimated their compliance rates
| Self-estimated hand hygiene rates (% compliance rates) |
Observed health care workers compliance rates (%) | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25–49% | 50–74% | 75–100% | ||
| Resident trainees | 13.9 | 41.66 | 16.67 | 21.62 |
| Staff nurses | 25 | 50 | 24 | 21.48 |
| Consultants | 12.5 | 25 | 25 | 22 |
| Physiotherapists | 16.1 | 32.2 | 45.1 | 70 |
