Patients' capability, opportunity, motivation, and perception of inpatient hand hygiene.

•Despite multiple hand hygiene resources in hospitals patient report minimal practice.•Majority of patients report hand hygiene products are for staff only not patients.•Patients perceive staff hand hygiene as more important than their own hand hygiene.•Patients report minimal use of sinks, wall hand sanitizer dispensers, towelettes.•Compared to home, patients report dissatisfaction with their inpatient hand hygiene.•Current inpatient hand hygiene practice and education strategies may be insufficient.