Physician compliance with hand hygiene protocols prior to patient examination may improve when physicians are asked to offer hand sanitizer to patients before washing their hands with the sanitizer ...

For the study, Srigley and her team studied the hand washing habits of 279 adult patients in three multi-organ transplant units of a Toronto acute care teaching hospital over an e ...

The latest hand hygiene performance measures from Alberta Health Services show Edmonton hospitals went from worst to near-benchmark for how regularly hospital staff wash their hands over the past six ...

A lot of the hand hygiene discussion in healthcare revolves around clinician adherence to hand hygiene protocols, but patients also play an important role in this infection prevention measure. However ...

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, ...

Hand hygiene is the simplest yet most powerful way to prevent infections in healthcare settings, protecting both patients and staff. Yet, compliance remains inconsistent worldwide, and even small ...

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 ...

From hand hygiene to aseptic technique, infection control is at the heart of safe healthcare. Updated CDC guidelines, new research on disinfectants, and innovative teaching methods are shaping how ...

A Fishers-based business that creates portable hand-washing stations for immobile hospital patients is planning to invest $584,000 in the company and create 25 new jobs by the end of 2024. Angie ...

Can changing a single word on a sign motivate doctors and nurses to wash their hands? Campaigns about hand-washing in hospitals usually try to scare doctors and nurses about personal illness, says ...

A recent Cambridge University-led study found evidence that a new app that lets patients watch a video of themselves washing their hands or touching a dirty object could be key to improving obsessive ...

A hand hygiene joint project between the Department of Veterans Affairs and 3M produced a number of valuable tools that used the Six Sigma process, including a free, downloadable questionnaire for ...