Table 1 Hospital areas of the sampled mobile handwashing stations (mHWS) matched with end-user groups, for 281/300 mHWS for which complete data were available
End-users | Hospital areas | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Administrative & support areas | Public areas | General patient areas | Specialized patient areas | Other patient-related services | Total | |
Non-clinical staff | 8 | – | – | – | – | 8 (2.9%) |
Visitors only | 3 | 1 | 6 | 1 | – | 11 (3.9%) |
Healthcare workers only | 14 | 1 | 21 | 42 | 8 | 86 (30.6%) |
Patients and healthcare workers | – | – | 22 | 12 | 4 | 38 (13.5%) |
Patients, visitors, and caretakers* | 1 | 4 | 9 | 3 | – | 17 (6.1%) |
Visitors and healthcare workers* | 13 | 4 | 12 | 4 | 5 | 38 (13.5%) |
Patients, healthcare workers, visitors, and caretakers* | 1 | 11 | 57 | 8 | 6 | 83 (29.5%) |
Total (% of total mHWS) | 40 (14.2%) | 21 (7.5%) | 127 (45.2%) | 70 (24.9%) | 23 (8.2%) | 281 (100%) |
*Mixed users (% per hospital area) | 15 (37.5%) | 19 (90.5%) | 78 (61.4%) | 15 (21.4%) | 11 (47.8%) | 138 (49.1%) |