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 ...

The Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology has released a free-to-download guide to hand hygiene programs. The “Guide to Hand Hygiene Programs for Infection Prevention” is ...

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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 ...

Hospital infection prevention teams have improved hand washing and sanitizing compliance at the hospital to nearly 100 percent among clinical staff through accountability and educational measures. In ...

ANN ARBOR, Mich., June 10, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Six months after implementing BioVigil's electronic hand hygiene solution, an automated way to monitor and measure staff hand hygiene behavior, Griffin ...

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 ...

To our knowledge, this is the first study to examine the views of senior hospital managers' perspectives and suggestions for strategies to address hand hygiene non-compliance in the acute care setting ...

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 ...

PITTSBURGH, Oct. 9, 2014 – UPMC Presbyterian Hospital's infection prevention teams have improved hand washing and sanitizing compliance at the hospital to nearly 100 percent among clinical staff ...