PDCA cycle reports: a quality tool to improve physician hand hygiene compliance

Physician hand hygiene (HH) compliance is often found to be lower than that of nurses in the literature. In our institution HH compliance among physicians was about 40% despite many ongoing activities supported by WHO Multimodal HH Strategy to improve it. In 2013, a HH improvement PDCA (Plan-Do-Check-Act) category was created and the best works awarded at annual institutional Quality Exhibits.