'Tis the data season

After 2 great weeks off, it was back to clinic, and meetings, and all the other stuff. And we've entered into January, my least favorite month. Cold and dark. But there is one thing I do like about January--the stream of data that hits my desk and the review of trends for our annual report. Today I received the hand hygiene data for 2010. Our group captured over 50,000 hand hygiene opportunities last year, a record for us. And our observers did this with the great app, iScrub, created by Phil Polgreen at Iowa. Overall compliance was 92%; 94% for nurses, and 85% for doctors. Not bad!