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 ...

World Hand Hygiene Day is May 5, and UMF Corporation is taking this occasion to remind healthcare administrators and staff that without environmental hand hygiene as a component, hand-washing programs ...

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 ...

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 ...

Hand hygiene within a hospital prevents the spread of infectious diseases, including communicable, respiratory illnesses like COVID-19 and influenza. This course provides the tools to implement a hand ...

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 is the simplest, most effective way to prevent the spread of infections in healthcare, yet healthcare worker adherence is often low. Infection preventionists at two health systems will ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Using business intelligence software, hand hygiene compliance data were shared in real time. Compliance rates ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Hospital staff in Canberra are getting better at hand hygiene. The latest statistics from an audit revealed the estimated rate of ...

Objective: The aim of this study was to determine the efficacy of a multimodal hand hygiene intervention program in reducing health care insurance claims for hygiene preventable infections (eg, cold ...

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 ...

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 ...