Influence of Handprint Culture Training on Compliance of Healthcare Workers with Hand Hygiene

Table 2

Comparison between Hand Print-0 cultures before and after applying hand hygiene.

Number of CFU according to the type of bacteria	Hand Print 0-Before HH	Hand Print 0-After HH	value
Median number of CFU/dominant hand/HCW (min–max) for all bacteria	25 (1–185)	2 (1–50)	0.0006
Total number of CFU/dominant hands of the 40 HCWs	1444	134	0.003
Transient bacteria/HCWs; median number of CFU/dominant hand/HCWs (%)
Staphylococcus aureus; (%)	560 (38.7)	88 (65)	0.0001
Gram negative non-lactose fermenters; (%)	364 (25)	22 (16)	0.0001
Gram negative lactose fermenters; (%)	147 (10)	7 (5)	0.0001
Pseudomonas; (%)	12 (0.8)	3 (2.24)	0.0001