despite the many alcohol-based hand-washing stations throughout the hospital. And some, Elliott said, just didn’t realize they had to wash their hands before and after they interacted with each ...

Among the nearly half of adults who didn’t wash their hands at important times, forgetting was the most common reason why. But 20% actively chose to not wash their hands, with some thinking that the ...

A Canadian microbiologist is warning good handwashing habits adopted during the pandemic have fallen by the wayside. The ...

“The key message is that hand washing is an important way for people to protect themselves and prevent infections, whether they’re in the hospital, at home, at work, or anywhere else,” she said.

Since it began collecting and reporting data on hospital hand hygiene in 2020, the percentage of hospitals meeting Leapfrog’s hand hygiene standard has risen from 11% to 74% in 2023, according ...

One way the government can protect public safety is by immediately setting specific hand hygiene standards for doctors, nurses, and hospital staff. While U.S. hospitals are required to have ...

After using trained observers to discover that hospital staff's hand-washing compliance was roughly 54%, the health system put video cameras in patient rooms to monitor clinicians' hand-washing ...

The researchers at SCVMC had two types of auditors assessing hand hygiene: Infection Prevention (IP) nurses, who everyone in the hospital recognized as the hygiene patrol, so to speak, and high ...

Adults in the U.S. still have a lot to learn when it comes to hand hygiene, according to a new national survey. While 62% said they know washing their hands with soap and water for 20 seconds is ...

Physician compliance with hand hygiene protocols prior to patient examination may improve when physicians are asked to offer hand sanitizer to patients before washing their hands with the ...

Painter Robert Thom depicts Semmelweis (center) in the Vienna General Hospital in Austria overseeing doctors washing their hands before examining obstetric patients. In 1847, Semmelweis ...