Doctors, get ready to wash your hands. Maryland Lt. Gov. Anthony Brown announced on Tuesday plans for a $100,000 initiative to ensure that hospital employees statewide wash their hands properly. The ...

Hygiene practices have come a long way since the CDC first published national hygiene guidelines in the 1980s. With so much to keep track of, a nurse leader summarized some of the latest practice ...

Researchers translated an informative hand-washing song into 26 different languages to help promote hand hygiene compliance during the pandemic, according to an article published in The Journal of ...

Patients go to clinics and hospitals hoping to get better. But sometimes they end up getting sick because they pick up infections passed on by doctors and nurses who ...

New data from Hill-Rom (NYSE: HRC) shows its hand-hygiene compliance system dramatically increases hand washing among hospital staff using the system. Analysis of more than 20 million instances of ...

David Sellers is vice president of clinical research at Proventix Systems, Inc., a healthcare technology company based in Birmingham, Alabama. that produces nGage™, an electronic hand-hygiene ...

A new year is a good time for resolutions, and in 2023, America’s health care providers should follow the example of St. Bernard Hospital and Health Care Center on the South Side. In 2021, this ...

Almost one in two people using a hospital toilet did not wash their hands afterwards, according to new research from the University of Surrey - raising serious concerns about hygiene compliance in ...

Hand-washing, patient falls and injuries and collapsed lungs were cited as areas of concern for metro-east area hospitals this autumn, according to a watchdog report released Nov. 16. The Leapfrog ...

Health workers in hospitals wash their hands less often as they near the end of their shift, a new study has found. And this lapse -- likely due to mental fatigue -- could contribute to hundreds of ...