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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Two acute-care health systems have substantially improved employee hand hygiene compliance using technology that pinpoints missed opportunities and improves accountability. That’s according to ...

One of the most common causes of preventable health care-associated infections is poor hand hygiene. iScrub Lite 1.5, an iPhone and iPod touch application developed at the University of Iowa, makes ...

(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 ...

MADIGAN ARMY MEDICAL CENTER, Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Wash. -- In an effort to keep patients, staff and the entire local community safe from the spread of COVID-19, Madigan Army Medical Center has ...

Researchers are constantly searching for the ‘right’ way to perform hand hygiene. Paul Jakeway, Marketing Director of Deb, explains why the best way to improve compliance is to make each hand hygiene ...