Healthcare personnel aren’t familiar with the World Health Organization’s “five moments” for hand hygiene, which may contribute to lower compliance, according to a study published in the American ...

Allowing medical students to act as covert observers of hand hygiene improves their awareness of the importance of hand hygiene, according to research published in the American Journal of Infection ...

The following are the 10 most-read hand hygiene stories on Becker’s Hospital Review and Becker’s ASC Review in March, beginning with the most-accessed. Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore offers a ...

Hand hygiene compliance is integral to lowering healthcare-acquired infections around the globe, which are costly and can have serious health repercussions for patients. 1. Chapel Hill-based ...

When our community was faced with a limited supply of flu vaccine in 2004, our infection control and liaison nurses decided to implement a respiratory and hand hygiene awareness campaign in our local ...

May 20, 2011 (Milan, Italy) — Nearly half of healthcare professionals around the world fail to comply with the World Health Organization (WHO)'s Moment 1: Before Touching a Patient hand-hygiene ...

But apparently, I am sorely mistaken, and such hand hygiene awareness is a cause more than worthy of its own special spot on the calendar, just like National Deep Dish Pizza Day last month. Upward of ...