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CleanHands: an integrated monitoring system for control of hospital acquired infections

Published: 13 April 2015 Publication History

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A leading cause of mortality of hospitalized patients are hospital acquired infections (HAI). Unclean hands of healthcare personnel (HCP) are the most common factor contributing to HAI, but their strict compliance to hand hygiene protocols is difficult to supervise. In this work, we propose CleanHands: a simple, low-cost and scalable monitoring and alerting system to ensure adequate thoroughness of disinfection. CleanHands uses a combination of low-cost Bluetooth low energy (BLE) beacon tags and mobile phones for HCP tracking. It integrates infection control models and state-following algorithms for alarming in the event of noncompliance to hand hygiene. Our preliminary experiments in a mockup, small scale intensive care unit (ICU) facility shows promising results with less than 5% false positives.

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[1]
Bluetooth SIG: Specification Adopted Documents. https://www.bluetooth.org/en-us/specification/adopted-specifications.
[2]
CC2540. http://www.ti.com/product/cc2540l.

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IPSN '15: Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks
April 2015
430 pages
ISBN:9781450334754
DOI:10.1145/2737095
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Published: 13 April 2015

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  1. Android
  2. bluetooth low energy
  3. localization
  4. tracking

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  • (2021)A Systematic Review of Electronic Monitoring Systems for Hand Hygiene (Preprint)Journal of Medical Internet Research10.2196/27880Online publication date: 11-Feb-2021
  • (2016)Cheepsync: a time synchronization service for resource constrained bluetooth le advertisersIEEE Communications Magazine10.1109/MCOM.2016.737843954:1(136-143)Online publication date: Jan-2016

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