Essentials: Guides & Tips

The Essentials page in Sani Analytics provides you with a general overview of the hand hygiene levels at your health care facility. 

Typical questions that can be answered are: Is there a general increase or decrease in the hand hygiene trend? Are you maintaining the level of hygiene over time? Can you account for any large fluctuations in compliance?

 

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Pie chart


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Shows the average hand hygiene level for the previous day, collected between 00:00-23:59.

Hygiene mentor: Sees the hand hygiene level from their ward.

Primary contact person: Sees the average hand hygiene level of all wards.

 

Line graph

Displays the daily hand hygiene level for the past 30 days. 

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You can see a thick, colored line that shows the daily average hand hygiene level (compliance) for the past 30 days. The blue, thin line shows the monthly average hand hygiene (compliance) for the past 30 days.

For the Hygiene mentor, the hand hygiene levels are based on data from their ward.

For the Primary contact person, the line graph will be based on data for all wards with the Sani Nudge system installed. 

Table data

The table data breaks down the hand hygiene levels to the different wards in your hospital with the solution implemented. The Primary contact person can see the average hand hygiene level for the past day on ward level, the amount of active Sani IDs and the amount of sanitizations they have performed.  The Hygiene mentor can only see data from their ward. 

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"Active IDs" refers to the number of Sani IDs registered the day before by a Sani Sensor in one of the rooms, which is set up for hand hygiene measurements. A Sani ID can be registered on several wards.

A Sani ID is registered as active when: A healthcare worker has been in minimum one situation where hand hygiene were required (hand hygiene opportunity). This happens when a healthcare worker has been registered by a Sani Sensor in a room where hand hygiene levels are measured.

It is important to note that Active IDs are not equivalent to the number of staff at work. The number can be used as an indication of how many staff members are wearing a Sani ID.

Sanitizations

This number informs the customer of the amount of sanitizations occurring during a 24-hour period. It refers to all the sanitizations taking place in a ward when healthcare workers are using a dispenser with a Sani Sensor. The sanitizations are only registered if the healthcare worker is wearing a Sani ID. 

The number also includes the amount of sanitizations in the kitchen, offices, hallways and patient toilets if there is a Sani Sensor on the dispensers (even though there are no measurements of hand hygiene levels in these rooms).

The number of sanitizations does not have to be related to a compliance situation. Many healthcare workers sanitize when leaving the office or walking in the hallway, and perform hand rub for 30 seconds while working into the patient room. They need to be credited for that specific sanitization, and they do not need to sanitize once more when entering the patient zone. BUT the healthcare worker might also sanitize in situations where they are not obligated to do so e.g. between different tasks in the offices. These sanitizations will also be recorded and displayed in Essentials even though these sanitizations were not directly related to the compliance results. 

How can I use this data?

  1. Take a look at the pie chart: Are you still in the green zone? Have you increased or decreased since last week?
  2. Look at the line chart: Do you see any alarming fluctuations in compliance? Have you suddenly decreased? Are you maintaining a good level of hand hygiene?
  3. Study the table data: Are there any wards that are doing particularly poorly? Is there a good commitment to wearing the Sani IDs? Is the amount of hand sanitizations as expected?
  4. Download the data as a CSV file to use in your internal data analysis tools.
  5. Show your colleagues the data. Encourage communication and discussion around hand hygiene. 

Sani Nudge recommendations

We recommend you target the wards with the lowest overall compliance. Present the data to the staff and discuss hand hygiene in your weekly meetings. Perhaps ask your colleagues why they think hand hygiene is not as high as it should be. Go over your hand hygiene rules of your hospital.

Further Help

Take a look at Weekly Improvements to identify the room types at the wards with the lowest and highest compliance. 

Use Team Insights to target specific staff groups that are performing poorly in hand hygiene. 

Encourage your healthcare workers to sign up to Individual Motivation so they can improve their own hand hygiene scores.

Take advantage of the nudging feature in Intelligent Nudging to remind and reinforce good hand hygiene behavior.