Guidelines on Hand Hygiene for Healthcare Workers from the World Health Organization . May 7, 2009 . Share ...

A supportive workplace culture seems to encourage hand hygiene guideline compliance. Conversely, healthcare workers who do not work in a supportive environment may ultimately lack the motivation to ...

The World Health Organization has released a new report, “Guidelines on Hand Hygiene in Health Care,” which target administrators, public health officials and healthcare workers. When it comes ...

The DebMed system is the only research-based, badge-free system capable of capturing all hand hygiene events based on the WHO 5 Moments for Hand Hygiene guidelines. The DebMed System: ...

Hospital workers did not improve their compliance with hand hygiene guidelines as a result of a quality improvement intervention using a novel electronic wearable device, a cluster randomized ...

Here are five recent stories and studies on hand hygiene compiled by Becker’s Hospital Review and Becker’s ASC Review, starting with the most recent. 1. A fist bump, instead of a handshake, may reduce ...

Hospitals and their medical staff have different ideas of how well the facility meets hand-hygiene guidelines, according to a new survey of infection preventionists, nurses and other healthcare ...

Improving employee knowledge of hand hygiene guidelines may have potential for boosting compliance for the behavior, according to a study published in the October issue of the American Journal of ...

Hand-hygiene compliance guidelines are followed roughly 34 percent of the time, according to a report published in May's Applied Nursing Research. The study, ...

Hospitals still largely rely on manual methods to track hand hygiene despite the prevalence of available electronic technologies to monitor cleanliness, a new by DebMed survey found, but a growing ...

Frequent hand washing is one of the oldest rules in the book when it comes to preventing infections. But despite intensive efforts to drum the habit into health-care workers, hand hygiene remains ...