The Joint Commission’s Center for Transforming Healthcare has announced that more than 1,090 hand hygiene projects are currently in progress, according to Joint Commission Online. The Center for ...

The Joint Commission this week released a document to help healthcare workers, including those in long-term care, measure hand hygiene compliance. The monograph “provides a framework to help health ...

For centuries humans have battled against bacteria, viruses and infections but it wasn't until the 19th century the notion of hand hygiene was implemented at healthcare facilities to deter such ...

An iPhone app could help significantly improve hand hygiene adherence among healthcare workers, according to research results presented at the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology annual meeting.

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, roughly one in 25 patients will contract a healthcare-associated infection. Physicians and healthcare workers, however, have the ability to ...

A perennial problem in healthcare facilities usually comes back to a very simple 30-second procedure. Ask any infection preventionist (IP) about his or her major focus on hand hygiene compliance and ...

Every year, May 5 marks World Hand Hygiene Day, an initiative by the World Health Organization (WHO) to remind everyone—from healthcare professionals to the general public—about the critical role that ...

Hand hygiene is one of the most effective, affordable and universal tools we have to prevent the transmission of infections and provide high-quality, clean and safe medical care. While medical gloves ...