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, ...

Healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) represent one of the main threats to patient safety in high-intensity care settings. Hand hygiene, performed according to the WHO six-step technique, is the ...

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 the knowledge that handwashing helps prevent healthcare-associated infections, hand hygiene compliance rates range between 25 percent and 51 percent, according to a study published in the ...

Proper hand hygiene is one of the most effective ways to prevent infections Washing hands correctly for at least twenty seconds improves protection Consistent hygiene habits can protect individuals ...

The Department of Veterans Affairs provides a free, downloadable hand hygiene/glove use observation tool for recording staff hand hygiene practices. The VA describes the purpose of the tool is to ...

Kontakt.io is offering its hand hygiene solution with rewards offered for compliance so that healthcare workers treat handwashing similar to exercising with fitness trackers. Several hospitals are ...

In the realm of frontline healthcare, where the well-being of both patients and healthcare workers hangs in the balance, there is a heightened vulnerability of healthcare workers (HCWs) to ...