Seasonal Variation in Bare-Below-the-Elbow Compliance

Affiliations: 1. Hand Hygiene Australia, Austin Health, Heidelberg, Victoria, Australia; 2. Infectious Diseases and Microbiology Department, Austin Health, Heidelberg, Victoria, Australia; 3. Department of Medicine, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, Australia; 4. Infection Control and Infectious Diseases Departments, Monash Health, Clayton, Victoria, Australia; 5. Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria, Australia; 6. Victorian Infectious Disease Service, Royal Melbourne Hospital at the Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia; 7. Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia; 8. School of Nursing and Midwifery; Griffith University, Nathan, Queensland, Australia; 9. Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Address correspondence to Andrew Stewardson, Infectious Diseases Department, Austin Health, PO Box 5555, Heidelberg, VIC Australia 3084 (andrew.stewardson@austin.org.au). PREVIOUS PRESENTATION: This work was presented in part as poster 11 at the Australian Society for Infectious Diseases Annual Scientific Meeting, Launceston, Australia, June 20–23, 2016. Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol 2017;38:502–504 © 2017 by The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America. All rights reserved. 0899-823X/2017/3804-0025. DOI: 10.1017/ice.2016.336