TY - JOUR AU - Wu, Kuan-Sheng AU - Lee, Susan Shin-Jung AU - Chen, Jui-Kuang AU - Chen, Yao-Shen AU - Tsai, Hung-Chin AU - Chen, Yueh-Ju AU - Huang, Yu-Hsiu AU - Lin, Huey-Shyan PY - 2018 DA - 2018/08/06 TI - Identifying heterogeneity in the Hawthorne effect on hand hygiene observation: a cohort study of overtly and covertly observed results JO - BMC Infectious Diseases SP - 369 VL - 18 IS - 1 AB - Observation and feedback are core strategies of hand hygiene (HH) improvement. Direct overt observation is currently the gold standard method. Observation bias, also known as the Hawthorne effect, is a major disadvantage of this method. Our aim was to examine the variation of the Hawthorne effect on HH observation in different healthcare groups and settings. SN - 1471-2334 UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/s12879-018-3292-5 DO - 10.1186/s12879-018-3292-5 ID - Wu2018 ER -