This study proposes the novel use of a bedrail-affixed technology-based patient hand hygiene system with verbal and visual reminders to improve hospitalized older adults' self-management of hand hygiene practice, which in return reduces harmful germs found on older adult's hands that lead to infections.
Age range
65 Years
Sex
ALL
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Patient Hand Contamination Presence/Absence with Select Pathogens at Baseline
Timeframe: Day 0
Patient Hand Contamination Presence/Absence with Select Pathogens at Day 3-4
Timeframe: Day 3 or 4
Patient Hand Contamination Counts of Pathogens at Baseline
Timeframe: Day 0
Patient Hand Contamination Counts of Pathogens at Day 3-4
Timeframe: Day 3 or 4