Some hand-washing mistakes might seem obviously wrong ... Sanitizers work best in clinical settings and are less effective against heavily soiled or greasy hands, the CDC says.

Healthcare workers were more likely to perform hand-hygiene protocols after contaminating tasks than critical tasks, compared with before such tasks, according to data published in Clinical ...

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 ...

ABHR was used more frequently than hand washing. Job function was found to affect hand hygiene frequency, with non-clinical staff and nursing staff demonstrating elevated rates of hand hygiene,” the ...

But no one knows for sure whether this dirty soap will actually transfer its germs to your hands during a wash. In fact, what little clinical evidence there is suggests that dirty soap isn’t so bad.

The report, published by the Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control Journal, reviews the substantial amount of research done on the link between clinical hand hygiene and the reduction in ...

Rosemary Nixon is a honorary clinical associate professor at the University of Melbourne. This story originally featured on The Conversation. Washing your hands is one of the crucial ways we can ...

A team from Britain and Australia reported in the Journal of Clinical Nursing last year that “as nurses, we are aware that hand-washing has not always been taken as seriously as it should ...

When they did wash their hands, only 50% of men used soap ... of the Centre for Behaviour Change at the Department of Clinical, Educational and Health Psychology at University College London.