All are part of growing efforts by hospitals and health care chains in Houston and across the country to prevent hospital-acquired infections and to increase hand-washing, the most basic ...

Anyone visiting somebody in a hospital must disinfect their hands,” says the long-standing advisor to the World Health ...

In the ongoing battle against hospital-acquired infections, hospitals continue to look for ways to increase hand hygiene compliance among their staff members. (Lisa DeJong/The Plain Dealer ...

Washing your hands often and keeping them clean could ... was published today in the journal Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology. The document addresses how facilities can train healthcare ...

was published today in the journal Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology. Hand hygiene is a basic function of healthcare safety. By engaging healthcare personnel and establishing reliable ...

A national watchdog group recently scored some southwestern Illinois hospitals below average for safety metrics, including infections, communication and hand washing. The Leapfrog Group is a ...

Hand hygiene can prevent 60% of hospital-acquired infections Hospital-acquired infections (HAIs) are infections that patients get as a result of receiving treatment in a hospital or other ...

Our hands are the home for microorganisms which live on one's skin surface. Mostly, these microorganisms are harmless. But the hands can become infected with germs that are harmful to the body ...

While all components of infection control are important to decrease the ... be enacted to reduce the risk of OAIs to frontline workers. Traditional hospital-based hand hygiene methods are complicated, ...

Dr Divya Gopal, Consultant, Internal Medicine, Sir HN Reliance Foundation Hospital shares that hand washing by soap and water reduces the risk of infection significantly, safeguarding children ...

was published today in the journal Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology. “Hand hygiene is a basic function of healthcare safety,” said lead author Janet Glowicz, PhD, RN, CIC, with the ...