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 ...

Historical perspectiveHand hygiene is recognized by infection prevention and control experts as the single most important intervention in decreasing the spread of infection in both healthcare and ...

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 ...

Despite significant changes in infection prevention practices since the introduction of the CMS Conditions for Coverage requirements, hand hygiene practices continue to be inconsistent and fall short ...

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 ...

Infection prevention practices centered on hand hygiene (HH) protocols can save lives across all healthcare facilities, not just hospital settings. This includes nursing homes, according to a new ...

Armed with new tools, patients and parents felt empowered to remind healthcare providers to perform hand hygiene, successfully improving compliance rates, but just over half of physicians felt that ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

But in an era of rising rates of drug-resistant infections and overburdened medical staffs, hygiene experts say the best-protected patients are those willing to take safety into their own hands — by ...

In the war to prevent hospital-acquired infections, nurses are better about washing their hands than doctors, a new study found. Despite widespread evidence that alcohol-based hand rub is the cheapest ...