@article{86b1254ff91248dea9fff7958185e59f,
title = "Technical note: Assessment of blinding of hand hygiene observers in randomized controlled trials of hand hygiene interventions",
abstract = "Trials evaluating interventions to improve health care workers{\textquoteright} hand hygiene compliance use directly observed compliance as a primary outcome measure. Observers should be blinded to the intervention and the effectiveness of blinding assessed to prevent systematic bias. The literature has not addressed this issue, and this study describes a robust and pragmatic method for assessing the adequacy of blinding in hand hygiene intervention trials.",
keywords = "hand hygiene, trials, blinding, observation, compliance, reliability",
author = "Besser, {Sarah Jane}",
note = "Chris Fuller, Sarah Besser, Barry D. Cookson, Ellen Fragaszy, Julian Gardiner, John McAteer, Susan Michie, Joanne Savage, & Sheldon P. Stone, ' Technical note: Assessment of blinding of hand hygiene observers in randomized controlled trials of hand hygiene interventions', American Journal of Infection Control, Vol. 38 (4): 332-334, May 2010. The version of record is available online at doi: 10.1016/j.ajic.2009.10.005 {\textcopyright} 2010 0 by the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology, Inc. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.",
year = "2010",
month = may,
day = "1",
doi = "10.1016/j.ajic.2009.10.005",
language = "English",
volume = "38",
pages = "332--334",
journal = "American Journal of Infection Control",
issn = "0196-6553",
publisher = "Elsevier",
number = "4",
}