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Medical and healthcare · programme 04

Master hygiene and infection control

Make infection prevention a collective reflex.

Why this programme

Hand hygiene, environmental cleaning, additional precautions: everyone knows the rules, but how they are applied varies from one department to another. The programme turns your hygiene protocols into team challenges, with projected scenes where every detail counts.

What your teams experience

  1. The five moments: place, in a projected care scene, the moments when hand hygiene is required.
  2. The germ’s journey: follow the spread of a fictional germ through a ward, and find where to stop it.
  3. The right equipment: choose the right protection for each situation, against the clock.
  4. The flash audit: each team proposes a simple checkpoint for its own department.

Each activity opens and closes with a projected cinematic sequence, personalised for your teams. The facilitator sets the pace: nothing moves forward without them.

What the company gains

Hygiene protocols that are better understood and better applied, departments that share their good practices, and practical preparation for audits and accreditations.

18,3 %

Mortality in Vienna's first obstetric clinic in April 1847, before Semmelweis introduced chlorine hand washing; it fell to 2.2% in June and 1.2% in July.

Ignaz Semmelweis (1847 data)“Medicine in stamps: Ignaz Semmelweis and puerperal fever”, Journal of Family and Community Medicine, 2013

Staging written for you

In your client area, a form specific to this programme collects your content: it is built into the challenges and cinematic sequences, exactly as you provide it. The look uses your logo and your colours. Teams are formed on the spot or based on your organisation chart.

Follow-up, up to D+30

Your follow-up dashboard stays with the programme, from the order to the final results.

  • After the session: the session report, with the gap between the opening and closing measures.
  • At D+7: a reminder asks a few key questions again, and the D+7 report shows what has been retained.
  • At D+30: a second reminder, and the D+30 report shows what holds over time.

Follow-up: before, during, after

The sources of this programme

The published research that this programme's games, measures and debriefs refer to. You can check every reference.

  1. Sax, H., Allegranzi, B., Uçkay, I., Larson, E., Boyce, J., & Pittet, D. (2007). 'My five moments for hand hygiene': A user-centred design approach to understand, train, monitor and report hand hygiene. Journal of Hospital Infection, 67(1), 9-21. 10.1016/j.jhin.2007.06.004
  2. World Health Organization (2009). WHO Guidelines on Hand Hygiene in Health Care: First Global Patient Safety Challenge, Clean Care is Safer Care. WHO/IER/PSP/2009/01 (rapport). www.who.int/publications/i/item/9789241597906
  3. Erasmus, V., Daha, T. J., Brug, H., Richardus, J. H., Behrendt, M. D., Vos, M. C., & van Beeck, E. F. (2010). Systematic review of studies on compliance with hand hygiene guidelines in hospital care. Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology, 31(3), 283-294. 10.1086/650451
  4. Pittet, D., Hugonnet, S., Harbarth, S., Mourouga, P., Sauvan, V., Touveneau, S., & Perneger, T. V. (2000). Effectiveness of a hospital-wide programme to improve compliance with hand hygiene. The Lancet, 356(9238), 1307-1312. 10.1016/S0140-6736(00)02814-2
  5. Fuller, C., Savage, J., Besser, S., Hayward, A., Cookson, B., Cooper, B., & Stone, S. (2011). "The dirty hand in the latex glove": A study of hand hygiene compliance when gloves are worn. Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology, 32(12), 1194-1199. 10.1086/662619
  6. Srigley, J. A., Furness, C. D., Baker, G. R., & Gardam, M. (2014). Quantification of the Hawthorne effect in hand hygiene compliance monitoring using an electronic monitoring system: A retrospective cohort study. BMJ Quality & Safety, 23(12), 974-980. 10.1136/bmjqs-2014-003080
  7. Kramer, A., Schwebke, I., & Kampf, G. (2006). How long do nosocomial pathogens persist on inanimate surfaces? A systematic review. BMC Infectious Diseases, 6, 130. 10.1186/1471-2334-6-130
  8. Schreiber, P. W., Sax, H., Wolfensberger, A., Clack, L., Kuster, S. P., & Swissnoso (2018). The preventable proportion of healthcare-associated infections 2005-2016: Systematic review and meta-analysis. Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology, 39(11), 1277-1295. 10.1017/ice.2018.183
  9. Gollwitzer, P. M., & Sheeran, P. (2006). Implementation intentions and goal achievement: A meta-analysis of effects and processes. Advances in Experimental Social Psychology, 38, 69-119. 10.1016/S0065-2601(06)38002-1
  10. Howard, G. S. (1980). Response-shift bias: A problem in evaluating interventions with pre/post self-reports. Evaluation Review, 4(1), 93-106. 10.1177/0193841X8000400105
  11. Roediger, H. L., & Karpicke, J. D. (2006). Test-enhanced learning: Taking memory tests improves long-term retention. Psychological Science, 17(3), 249-255. 10.1111/j.1467-9280.2006.01693.x
  12. Okuyama, A., Wagner, C., & Bijnen, B. (2014). Speaking up for patient safety by hospital-based health care professionals: A literature review. BMC Health Services Research, 14, 61. 10.1186/1472-6963-14-61
Further reading (3 references)

Other research we drew on to design this programme.

  1. Gould, D. J., Moralejo, D., Drey, N., Chudleigh, J. H., & Taljaard, M. (2017). Interventions to improve hand hygiene compliance in patient care. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, 2017(9), CD005186. 10.1002/14651858.CD005186.pub4
  2. Allegranzi, B., Bagheri Nejad, S., Combescure, C., Graafmans, W., Attar, H., Donaldson, L., & Pittet, D. (2011). Burden of endemic health-care-associated infection in developing countries: Systematic review and meta-analysis. The Lancet, 377(9761), 228-241. 10.1016/S0140-6736(10)61458-4
  3. Pronovost, P., Needham, D., Berenholtz, S., et al. (2006). An intervention to decrease catheter-related bloodstream infections in the ICU. New England Journal of Medicine, 355(26), 2725-2732. 10.1056/NEJMoa061115
Shared foundations (14 references)

The mechanics of all our sessions (team play, the debrief, the before-and-after measure, spaced reminders) and the research that also underpins the other programmes in the same specialty or sector.

  1. Tannenbaum, S. I., & Cerasoli, C. P. (2013). Do team and individual debriefs enhance performance? A meta-analysis. Human Factors, 55(1), 231-245. 10.1177/0018720812448394
  2. Stasser, G., & Titus, W. (1985). Pooling of unshared information in group decision making: Biased information sampling during discussion. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 48(6), 1467-1478. 10.1037/0022-3514.48.6.1467
  3. Sitzmann, T. (2011). A meta-analytic examination of the instructional effectiveness of computer-based simulation games. Personnel Psychology, 64(2), 489-528. 10.1111/j.1744-6570.2011.01190.x
  4. Reason, J. (2000). Human error: Models and management. BMJ, 320(7237), 768-770. 10.1136/bmj.320.7237.768
  5. Edmondson, A. C. (1996). Learning from mistakes is easier said than done: Group and organizational influences on the detection and correction of human error. Journal of Applied Behavioral Science, 32(1), 5-28. 10.1177/0021886396321001
  6. Edmondson, A. (1999). Psychological safety and learning behavior in work teams. Administrative Science Quarterly, 44(2), 350-383. 10.2307/2666999
  7. Tucker, A. L., & Edmondson, A. C. (2003). Why hospitals don't learn from failures: Organizational and psychological dynamics that inhibit system change. California Management Review, 45(2), 55-72. 10.2307/41166165
  8. Dekker, S. (2007). Just Culture: Balancing Safety and Accountability. Ashgate (ouvrage).
  9. Organisation mondiale de la santé (2021). Global Patient Safety Action Plan 2021-2030: Towards Eliminating Avoidable Harm in Health Care (rapport). iris.who.int/handle/10665/343477
  10. Hughes, A. M., Gregory, M. E., Joseph, D. L., et al. (2016). Saving lives: A meta-analysis of team training in healthcare. Journal of Applied Psychology, 101(9), 1266-1304. 10.1037/apl0000120
  11. Weaver, S. J., Dy, S. M., & Rosen, M. A. (2014). Team-training in healthcare: A narrative synthesis of the literature. BMJ Quality & Safety, 23(5), 359-372. 10.1136/bmjqs-2013-001848
  12. Neily, J., Mills, P. D., Young-Xu, Y., et al. (2010). Association between implementation of a medical team training program and surgical mortality. JAMA, 304(15), 1693-1700. 10.1001/jama.2010.1506
  13. King, H. B., Battles, J., Baker, D. P., et al. (2008). TeamSTEPPS: Team Strategies and Tools to Enhance Performance and Patient Safety. In K. Henriksen et al. (dir.), Advances in Patient Safety: New Directions and Alternative Approaches, vol. 3 : Performance and Tools. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (rapport). www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK43686/
  14. Cook, D. A., Hatala, R., Brydges, R., et al. (2011). Technology-enhanced simulation for health professions education: A systematic review and meta-analysis. JAMA, 306(9), 978-988. 10.1001/jama.2011.1234

Before you book

How is a Corporate Solutions experience different from team building?

It starts from a business objective, not an activity: onboarding new hires, preventing a risk, bringing your commitments to life. It is staged for your company, with your content, your figures and your brand. Your teams play in person, on their phones, while a big screen tells the story and a facilitator runs the room. And it is followed up: the session report, then the D+7 and D+30 reminders in your client area.

Do we need to install an app?

No. Participants scan a QR code and play in their phone's browser. No account, no password, no installation. It works on iPhone and Android.

Is there a limit on the number of participants?

No. The platform adapts to your headcount, from a small team to the whole company, in one or several rooms.

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See “Master hygiene and infection control” in action.

Thirty minutes on your premises. You play a challenge and see the report at the end.

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