Good hand hygiene is crucial to help prevent healthcare-associated infections. This article, the final part in a six-part series discusses the principles of hand hygiene and the procedure for cleaning ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Hand hygiene is described by many health care workers as the single most important tool in preventing the spread ...

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 ...

1. Hand hygiene compliance mandatory in ambulatory care settings. Starting in 2018, ambulatory care surveyors began issuing citations if they saw staff not following hand hygiene guidelines. 2.

While the majority of clinicians view hand hygiene as critical to patient safety, environment and other factors can stand in the way of high reliability, according to a new survey-based study led by ...

Improving compliance with hand hygiene practices has been a challenge in all healthcare facilities including the long-term care (LTC) setting. One of the most common modes of transmission of pathogens ...

According to an online survey conducted by market research company Perception Solutions Inc. on behalf of several health care associations to determine the extent of hospitals' infection control ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . “Since this preliminary report, the NHHI has progressed from the implementation phase to maintenance and ...

Electronic monitoring of healthcare workers’ hand-washing habits cuts Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) infection rates by 42 percent, according to a study published in the American ...

Chemoradiation in Stage IIIB Cancer of the Uterine Cervix: A Review of the Zimbabwean Experience Our work was a prospective before-and-after study to improve IPC standards. We compared the WHO Hand ...