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 ...

Despite being a pillar of preventing the spread of germs, hand hygiene compliance rates remain dismal in many healthcare settings. That said, research on how to boost compliance and establish best ...

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 ...

When patients remind doctors about hand hygiene it improves compliance rates, but physicians don't necessarily welcome the suggestion. And overall, physicians said they would prefer a patient make the ...

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 ...

A recent review of 96 hand-hygiene studies from hospitals in industrialized nations found an overall hand hygiene adherence rate of 40 percent among health care workers. The authors found great ...

From the time it takes to perform an alcohol-based sanitizer event to the size of hands involved in the procedure, there is no single answer for every individual looking to practice effective hand ...

(NBC) — New research from the University of Iowa shows many workers in hospital ICU’s don’t perform proper hand hygiene. They found workers were less likely to clean their hands, when moving from ...