The Institute for Healthcare Improvement, in collaboration with the CDC, the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology and the Society of Healthcare Epidemiology of America, ...

When Shanina Knighton began pursuing her doctorate in nursing in 2013, she set out to seek evidence to support a theory. She’d noticed that, during the H1N1 pandemic, patient hand hygiene wasn’t ...

Hospital patients aren’t washing their hands enough, and that can lead to people picking up more infections when hospitalized, according to a new study out of McMaster University. The study, which was ...

Hand-washing adherence is on the up-and-up as more hospitals are holding their leadership accountable for hand hygiene, patient safety watchdog The Leapfrog Group reports. Since it began collecting ...

The Johns Hopkins Center for Innovation in Quality Patient Care provides a free, downloadable and adaptable card for patients to fill out when observing whether their healthcare providers are ...

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As far as the germ transmission goes, Dr. Schleiss notes that proper hand hygiene mitigates the risks associated with shaking hands. "If we're going to live in a world where doctors don't wash their ...

A recent Cambridge University-led study found evidence that a new app that lets patients watch a video of themselves washing their hands or touching a dirty object could be key to improving obsessive ...

Only 13 percent of emergency medical providers wash their hands before coming into contact with a patient, according to a study from New Brunswick, N.J.-based Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital.

India, May 4 -- World Hand Hygiene Day is observed every year on May 5 to promote the importance of clean hands in preventing ...

Encouraging doctors and nurses to wash their hands frequently has always been considered an effective way to curb the spread of infection in hospitals and other health facilities. But a research ...