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

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: ...

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 ...

“There are multiple papers that show adherence to hand hygiene, according to the WHO guidelines, is usually around 50% to 60%,” Elaine Larson, PhD, RN, Anna C. Maxwell professor of nursing ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

To ensure its physicians and staff members in its ambulatory surgery centers follow proper hand hygiene guidelines, the Laser Spine Institute developed a hand hygiene observation record to track ...