Why is hand hygiene (HH) important?

I am planning to write a research article to be submitted to the Journal of Hospital Infection Full-length, original research articles Should contain up to a maximum of 4000 words, which includes the structured summary, text, acknowledgements and references. Each figure and/or tables counts as 200 words towards the total. Separate Figures or Tables labelled 1A, 1B, 1C etc would count as three separate tables, not one. For this assignment, I am only targeting around 3000 words + 4-5 figures/tables. Please do the reference format in EndNote so that it would be easier for me to track and simplify changes. MAIN POINTS TO BE INCLUDED: 1. INTRODUCTION -Why is hand hygiene (HH) important? Reduce hospital acquired infections that have detrimental effects -HH compliance is low worldwide. -Our hospital 50-60% compliance -November 2013 our hospital started a campaign where each inpatient ward is allowed to select one or more interventions to be applied with the goal to improve HH. -Aim: to determine which intervention combination works the best -How? We compare the audit results before and after the program. –