Hygiene practices have come a long way since the CDC first published national hygiene guidelines in the 1980s. With so much to keep track of, a nurse leader summarized some of the latest practice ...

Roughly five years ago Rhode Island Hospital in Providence had a hand hygiene problem. Only 40-50 percent of all hand washing that was supposed to take place was actually happening, and, as a result, ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . An automated hand hygiene monitoring system increased hand hygiene compliance across all units in a hospital.

A key factor that hasn't been covered in the Senate health care debate: hand washing. Dr. Richard Melker of the University of Florida thinks that's a big problem — so big that he's come up with a ...

Washing your hands is a crucial process to help prevent the spread of infections like colds, flu, COVID-19 and in the case of ...

Wexham Park Hospital leads the UK’s first “water-safe” overhaul, removing sinks from wards to combat rising antimicrobial-resistant infections and rethinking everything clinicians know about hygiene ...

— -- For doctors and nurses, hand hygiene is supposed to be as intuitive as breathing. But is this behavior really second-nature, or do health care workers need supervision to keep their hand ...

Almost one in two people using a hospital toilet did not wash their hands afterwards, according to new research from the University of Surrey - raising serious concerns about hygiene compliance in ...

A new year is a good time for resolutions, and in 2023, America’s health care providers should follow the example of St. Bernard Hospital and Health Care Center on the South Side. In 2021, this ...

Here’s something that will make you lose just a bit more faith in humanity—or at least reach for some hand wipes. New research shows that even in hospitals, a substantial number of people aren’t ...

Anti-microbial resistant superbugs have killed an estimated one million people worldwide every year since 1990, according to research. But Slough's Wexham Park Hospital has worked out that your ...