The 2012 hand hygiene audit results indicated that the rate of compliance for proper hand hygiene has decreased compared to the previous year's audit results.
Frequent and comprehensive monitoring, proactive communication with consent holders and well-considered enforcement mean that overall, consent holders deliver an extremely high rate of compliance and that problems are reducing.
Once again, if we were to apply the principle of fairness by increasing the rate of compliance among companies, we would more than compensate for the $3.3 billion loss in revenue.