Beterra Audits · Hand hygiene

Hand hygiene audits your staff will actually finish.

WHO 5 Moments on any phone, under a minute per observation. Missed moments become owned actions. Compliance lands next to your infection rates, not in a spreadsheet.

  • WHO 5 Moments template
  • Under a minute per observation
  • Unlimited users
  • Set up in a day

From Beterra, the safety, quality, and compliance platform used by 250+ health systems for culture surveys and quality improvement.

Where the time goes

The observation takes a minute. Everything after it takes the week.

Hours lost to data entry

Observations written on a card, keyed into a spreadsheet, then reformatted for the infection control committee. Often twice.

Findings with no owner

A unit at 71% is a fact on a chart. Who is fixing it, by when, and whether it worked lives in email, or nowhere.

Compliance and infections in different tools

Hand hygiene in one system, CLABSI and C. diff rates in another. Nobody can see whether the practice is moving before the outcome does.

Try it

Observe, save, and watch the follow-up happen.

This is the hand hygiene template as an auditor sees it. Tap a moment to change the answer, save the observation, and the unit compliance, the physician action, and the monthly collection goal all update.

  • Physician exit compliance below 75% becomes an action with an owner and a due date
  • Collection goal shows 156 of 200 observations, so the unit knows it is on pace
  • Every tap is time-stamped, so the surveyor gets a record rather than a summary
Beterra Audits / Hand hygiene / 4 West

1 Observe

Hand hygiene · 4 West

Room 412 · Physician · 07:42
tap a moment to change

0:41 elapsed

2 Act

84% hand hygiene compliance
September · 312 observations
Nursing 88%
Physicians 71%
Therapy 92%
EVS 90%

Action · Physician exit compliance below 75%

Owner: Dr. Patel, Hospitalist lead · Due Sep 30 · Open

Collection goal · September78%

156 of 200 observations · 6 auditors

Live example. Tap a moment and save: unit compliance, the physician action, and the collection goal all update.

How it works

Five steps. The last three are the ones you are doing by hand today.

01

Pick the unit

Open the WHO 5 Moments template on any phone. No app store, no separate login.

02

Observe

Tap through the moments by role. Under a minute, gloves on, dictate a note if you need to.

03

Flag the gap

A missed moment becomes an action with an owner and a due date, right there.

04

Route and follow up

Owners are notified. Unit leaders see what is open. Nothing sits in an inbox.

05

Close and trend

Resolution is recorded, dashboards update, the surveyor gets the trail.

Why monitored compliance

Having a policy did not move infection rates. Sustained, monitored compliance did.

95%

The compliance threshold that moved outcomes

Having a bundle policy did not. Monitoring with moderate compliance did not. Monitored and sustained did.

r = −0.96

Hand hygiene compliance vs. infection rates

Systematic review, Journal of Hospital Infection.

38%

Lower CLABSI rate

When bundle compliance is monitored and high. National ICU study.

200+

Observations a month per unit

The Leapfrog expectation. Collection goals keep every auditor on pace.

What is included

Everything between the observation and the committee slide.

WHO 5 Moments, ready to go

Hand hygiene by role and moment, plus glove use and product availability. Edit any element, or build a new audit with conditional logic in an afternoon, without IT.

Sub-minute mobile capture

Any phone, tablet, or workstation. Tap through the elements, save, next. Attach a photo or dictate a note with gloves on and it is transcribed for you.

Corrective actions to closure

Any non-compliant finding becomes an action with an owner, a due date, and a unit. Leaders see what is open and what closed.

Collection goals and reminders

Set monthly observation targets by unit and auditor. See who is on pace and nudge in one click.

Dashboards and scheduled reports

Compliance by unit, role, and shift. Trend lines per audit. Reports emailed to managers on the schedule you set.

Survey-ready evidence

Every observation, action, and resolution is time-stamped and exportable. Hand the surveyor the record instead of rebuilding it.

Process next to outcome

See hand hygiene move before the infection rate does.

Compliance by unit sits beside CLABSI, CAUTI, and C. difficile on the same view. When a unit's compliance drops, leaders see it weeks before it shows up in an outcome, and the open actions are right there.

Reports go to unit managers on the schedule you set. The committee slide builds itself.

Beterra Audits dashboard showing observations completed, hand hygiene compliance by unit, open actions, an eight-week process and outcome trend, and the connected infection metrics

Compared

Capturing the observation is the easy part.

Status quo

Paper and spreadsheets

  • Clipboards keyed into Excel, often twice
  • Compliance reported weeks after the observation
  • Findings noted, rarely assigned
  • Charts rebuilt by hand for every committee
  • Survey prep means reconstructing the year
Alternatives

Audit-only tools

  • Digital capture, but the follow-up lives elsewhere
  • Per-user or per-auditor licensing
  • Compliance in one place, outcomes in another
  • Reports you export and format yourself
  • Templates you build from scratch
Beterra

Beterra Audits

  • Under a minute per observation on any phone
  • Missed moments become owned actions with due dates
  • Compliance beside CLABSI, CAUTI, and C. diff rates
  • Collection goals by unit and auditor, with reminders
  • Scheduled reports and survey-ready export
  • Unlimited users, set up in a day

Founding hospitals

Beterra Audits is new. The first ten hospitals shape it.

Founding hospitals get their pricing locked, their existing forms and history rebuilt for them, and a direct line to the team building the product. In return we ask for honest feedback and a conversation about what to build next.

  • Pricing locked for the life of the contract
  • Your current forms and twelve months of history loaded
  • Direct line to the product team
  • Unlimited users from day one

Questions we get asked

How long does setup take?

One day, by your quality or infection prevention lead. The clinical templates are ready to use, and if you send us your current paper form we rebuild it for you first.

Do auditors need to install an app?

No. Beterra Audits runs in the browser on any phone, tablet, or workstation. Auditors open a link and start observing.

Is there a per-user charge?

No. Every auditor, coach, unit leader, and infection preventionist is included. Pricing is by facility.

Can we bring our history from Qualaris, SafetyCulture, or spreadsheets?

Yes. Export your observations, we import them, and your compliance trends continue rather than starting over. Most switches take under two weeks.

What does "send me your form" actually mean?

Upload a photo or PDF of the audit form you use today. Within one business day you get a link to the same audit rebuilt in Beterra, ready to run on your phone, and a 20-minute call to walk through it. There is no commitment.

How does this connect to infection rates?

Hand hygiene compliance appears beside the outcomes it drives, such as CLABSI, CAUTI, and C. difficile, on the same unit view. Leaders see the practice move before the outcome does.

Send me the hand hygiene form you use today.

I'll rebuild it in Beterra and send it back within one business day, ready to run on your phone. Then we spend 20 minutes together seeing where it lands next to your infection rates.

Prefer to talk first? Book a demo instead. Either way there is no commitment and no IT project.

Photograph the hand hygiene form you use today. I'll rebuild it in Beterra.

One business day. Then a 20-minute call to walk through it on your phone. No IT, no commitment.

Unlimited users, no per-seat pricing. We reply within one business day.