As the threat of AMR grows, hand hygiene compliance will become critical, but it is often difficult for healthcare environments to maintain. One of the best ways to improve compliance rates is to make ...

Researchers observed that even during a high-profile norovirus outbreak, students followed recommended hand hygiene procedures just 17 percent of the time. In a self-reported survey after the outbreak ...

The ASC Quality Collaboration offers a free, downloadable sample hand hygiene policy and procedure. Under the draft policy, “all members of the healthcare team will ...

Although proper hand-washing procedures are the best way to reduce methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) while treating patients, a new study reveals hand hygiene itself is only one piece ...

CHAPEL HILL, N.C., Sept. 8 (UPI) -- Simple, inexpensive infection control adopted in U.S. hospitals may reduce thousands of preventable deaths and save billions of dollars, a researcher says. Study ...

Staff at an unnamed cancer hospital showed poor compliance with hand hygiene standards, particularly before performing procedures, according to new study published in Applied Nursing Research.

Person in charge failed to control access to food facility by unauthorized persons. Food employee did not follow proper hand-washing procedure - soap and warm water were not used. Food employee donned ...

Last month, the University of Chicago Medical Center (UCMC) organized the Big Wash, a one-day competition to promote proper hand hygiene procedures among staff. In the 24-hour period of observation, ...

New health care technology could sniff out one of the leading causes of death in the United States. HyGreen hand hygiene sensors, developed at the University of Florida, can detect whether doctors and ...