Despite various techniques that health care facilities use to facilitate 100% hand hygiene compliance from their health care workers, barriers still must be overcome. Hand hygiene is key to preventing ...

Hebah al Zamel, MSN, CIC, CPHQ, an infection preventionist in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and a member of ICT's Editorial Advisory Board, describes how hand hygiene is handled in Prince Sultan Cardiac ...

In healthcare, discussions regarding hands largely revolve around hand hygiene for infection control purposes. While the discussion of hand hygiene is undoubtedly important for patient care, care of ...

It takes more than one method to bring a hospital's hand hygiene compliance rate above 90%. At Barnes-Jewish St. Peters (MO) Hospital (BJSPH), it was a matter of ...

To supplement the material and analysis provided by Becker's Clinical Quality and Infection Control, Becker's Healthcare offers an online database of free and low-cost downloadable patient safety ...

Here are five proven strategies for increasing hand hygiene compliance at your ASC. 1. Place hand sanitizers throughout the facility. Installing hand sanitizers throughout an ASC gives the facility an ...

Memorial Healthcare budgets to implement Intelligent Observations' sensor-driven approach systemwide. As the COVID-19 pandemic rages on, a small but growing number of hospitals are investigating or ...

Study results showed alcohol sanitizer containing viacydin improves antimicrobial efficacy and is well-tolerated by users, according to research published in AJIC Journal. Over the course of three ...