Risk factors related to lack of hand hygiene* compliance among emergency medical service providers
| Potential risk factors | Observed number of non-compliances | Univariate analysis | Multivariate analysis† | ||||
| OR | 95% CI | P value | OR | 95% CI | P value | ||
| Advanced-care level | 872/1146 | 1.9 | 1.4 to 2.7 | 0.000 | 1.7 | 1.1 to 2.4 | 0.007 |
| Female | 428/1146 | 1.2 | 0.9 to 1.7 | 0.176 | 1.3 | 0.9 to 1.9 | 0.107 |
| Wearing gloves | 708/1146 | 25.0 | 14 to 45 | 0.000 | 45.0 | 10.8 to 187.8 | 0.000 |
*Either hand wash or hand rub.
†Including an interaction term between ‘wearing gloves and educational level’ (interaction non-significant, p=0.309).