The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention offers a free training tool designed to facilitate employee training on hand hygiene. The interactive hand hygiene education, presented as a slide show ...

The Johns Hopkins Center for Innovation in Quality Patient Care provides a free, downloadable and adaptable card for patients to fill out when observing whether their healthcare providers are ...

The CDC and GOJO, a producer and marketer of skin health and hygiene solutions, have formed a partnership to provide unbranded hand hygiene tools and educational materials for patients, healthcare ...

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 ...

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 ...

Changing the language on signs that remind hospital workers about hand hygiene could actually affect compliance, according to a new study published in Psychological Science. Researchers found that ...

Editor’s note: This is the third in a series of articles in which we will bring in an expert to address some of the misinformation we have read in various social ...

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 ...

Jigme Dorji Wangchuck National Referral Hospital’s own hand hygiene study is a damning indictment of the hospital’s languid attitude towards issues related to compliance that borders on dangerous ...

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 ...

Physicians and nurses are significantly more likely to comply with handwashing guidelines when they know they are being watched, a new study suggests. The finding, published online July 5 in the ...

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 ...