Table 3 Location of highly contaminated mobile handwashing stations (mHWS, n = 281) according to hospital area matched with user groups
End–users (numbers of mHWS) | Hospital areas (total number of mHWS) | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Administrative & Support areas (n = 40) | Public areas (n = 21) | General patient areas (n = 127) | Specialized patient areas (n = 70) | Other patient-related services (n = 23) | Total (n = 281) | |
Non–clinical staff (n = 8) | 1 (1) | – | – | – | – | 1 (1) |
Visitors only (n = 11) | 1 | 1 | – | – | 2 | |
Healthcare workers only (n = 86) | 6 (1) | 1 | 6 (2) | 17 (7) | 3 | 33 (10) |
Patients and healthcare workers (n = 38) | – | – | 7 | 4 (2) | 2 | 13 (2) |
Patients, visitors and caretakers* (n = 17) | – | 1 | 4 | – | – | 5 |
Visitors and healthcare workers* (n = 38) | 3 | 5 (2) | 1 | 2 | 11 (2) | |
Patients, healthcare workers, visitors and caretakers* (n = 83) | – | 1 (1) | 26 (9) | 5 (2) | 2 | 34 (12) |
Total highly contaminated mHWS | 11 (2) | 3 (1) | 49 (13) | 27 (11) | 9 | 99 (27) |
*Mixed users (n = 138) | 3 | 2 (1) | 35 (11) | 6 (2) | 4 | 50 (14) |