The course, and associated promotional materials, reviews key concepts of hand hygiene and other standard precautions to prevent healthcare-associated infections. Topics addressed include: What are ...

Hand hygiene within a hospital prevents the spread of infectious diseases, including communicable, respiratory illnesses like COVID-19 and influenza. This course provides the tools to implement a hand ...

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 ...

Orlando, Fla., June 27, 2023 – Hand hygiene is the simplest, most effective way to prevent the spread of infections in healthcare, yet healthcare worker adherence is often low. Infection ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . “The technique for the use of hand rub outlined in the WHO guidelines consists of six steps to ensure entire ...

Experts view hand washing as the single most important way to stop the transmission of disease from one person to another. In 1864, Ignaz Semmelweis, a Hungarian physician, became known as the father ...

Handwashing is our first line of defence against germs. It removes bacteria, viruses, and other pathogens that can cause ...

Lather up. Handwashing via www.shutterstock.com. To me as a physician who studies health quality, it often seems that getting health care workers to follow hand hygiene protocols has gotten only ...

In the realm of frontline healthcare, where the well-being of both patients and healthcare workers hangs in the balance, there is a heightened vulnerability of healthcare workers (HCWs) to ...

A new study by researchers at GOJO Industries, recently published in the journal Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology (ICHE), demonstrates healthcare facilities that actively partner with their ...