Staci Reynolds, associate professor, Bradi Granger, professor, and Daniel Hatch, biostatistician III, wrote "Self-Reported versus Observed Audit: Measuring CHG Bathing Compliance" in "American Journal of Infection Control."

Abstract

Measuring compliance with the appropriate chlorhexidine gluconate (CHG) bathing process through direct observation audits can be helpful in sustaining this important practice; however, capturing this data may be difficult. This study reports the differences between observed and self-reported CHG bathing process compliance audits. The difference between mean observed and self-reported compliance was not significant (p = .06), indicating that self-reported compliance may be an accurate, easy to obtain proxy measure for CHG bathing process compliance.