According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, roughly one in 25 patients will contract a healthcare-associated infection. Physicians and healthcare workers, however, have the ability to ...

When it comes to lapses in hand hygiene protocol, the contaminated fingers are often pointed at healthcare professionals. Some of this accusation is warranted. In a recent study in the American ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . As part of a pilot program, patients and visitors performed audits of HCW hand hygiene compliance. During the ...

Hand Hygiene Checklist: 5 Suggestions for Process Improvement Despite significant changes in infection prevention practices since the introduction of the CMS Conditions for Coverage requirements, hand ...

GOJO Industries, a leader in hand hygiene and skin health and inventors of PURELL® Hand Sanitizer, conducted an independent research study at the John Peter Smith Hospital in Fort Worth, Texas to ...

The Institute for Healthcare Improvement, in collaboration with the CDC, the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology and the Society of Healthcare Epidemiology of America, ...

A Maryland health coalition has launched what has been nicknamed the "secret shopper" hospital project in which teams of unidentified employees will monitor colleagues' hand hygiene each time they ...

When Shanina Knighton began pursuing her doctorate in nursing in 2013, she set out to seek evidence to support a theory. She’d noticed that, during the H1N1 pandemic, patient hand hygiene wasn’t ...

Patient and visitor hand hygiene is often overlooked in the hand hygiene programs of many healthcare facilities. According to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), hand hygiene is ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The hands of newly admitted patients are commonly contaminated with multidrug-resistant organisms, or MDROs, ...