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 ...

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 ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . New guidelines for hand-washing in medical facilities, aimed at reducing health care- associated infections, ...

Despite significant changes in infection prevention practices since the introduction of the CMS Conditions for Coverage requirements, hand hygiene practices continue to be inconsistent and fall short ...

The Joint Commission will issue citations to ambulatory care organizations whose employees violate hand hygiene guidelines before providing direct patient care. Here are seven things to know: 1. The ...

The Joint Commission announced that starting Jan. 1 if surveyors observe any individual failures to perform hand hygiene in the process of direct patient care, it will be cited as a deficiency. 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 ...

The Daejin Medical Foundation Bundang Jesaeng Hospital (Hospital Director Na Hwa-yeop) recently held a fun infection control ...

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 ...

Patient and visitor hand hygiene is often overlooked in the hand hygiene programs of many healthcare facilities. According to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), hand hygiene is ...

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