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

Table 4

Comparison between Hand Print 0-Before HH and Hand Print-12 weeks-Before HH.

CFU per type of Bacteria	Hand Print 0-Before HH	Hand Print-12 weeks-Before HH	value
Median number of CFU/dominant hand/HCW (min–max) for all bacteria	25 (1–185)	20 (0–200)	0.66
Total number of CFU/dominant hands of the 40 HCWs	1444	1915	0.822
Transient bacteria/HCWs; median number of CFU/dominant hand/HCWs (%)
Staphylococcus aureus; (%)	560 (38.7)	275 (18)	<0.000
Gram negative non-lactose fermenters; (%)	364 (25)	173 (9)	<0.001
Gram negative lactose fermenters; (%)	147 (10)	19 (0.99)	<0.0001
Resident bacteria/HCWs; median number of CFU/dominant hand/HCWs (%)
Staph. CoNS; (%)	277 (19)	963 (50)	<0.0001
Anthracoids; (%)	89 (6)	64 (4)	0.603