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 ...

Researchers have implemented a hand hygiene program driven by a behavioral change approach to increase hand hygiene compliance, according to a study published in Infection Control and Hospital ...

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 ...

The Johns Hopkins Hand Hygiene SuperStar program is a hospital-wide recognition program intended to encourage proper hand hygiene practices. Healthcare team members are nominated for their exemplary ...

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 ...

Health systems spend millions obtaining the latest technology to create state-of-the-art facilities and to build reputations for quality and innovation. But failing to maintain consistency in ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . New guidelines for hand-washing in medical facilities, aimed at reducing health care- associated infections, ...

Our hands are the home for microorganisms which live on one's skin surface. Mostly, these microorganisms are harmless. But the hands can become infected with germs that are harmful to the body, while ...

A seismic demographic shift is afoot, with older adults expected to outnumber children by the year 2034 for the first time in U.S. history. This will result in higher demand for long-term care ...

That's where the DiskCover® System by AseptiScope, a groundbreaking solution to redefine stethoscope hygiene, comes in. The first touch-free stethoscope hygiene system of its kind, the DiskCover® ...