(HealthDay News) — A multifaceted intervention can improve hand hygiene compliance among emergency nurses and technicians, according to a study published in the March issue of the Journal of Emergency ...

Kontakt.io is offering its hand hygiene solution with rewards offered for compliance so that healthcare workers treat handwashing similar to exercising with fitness trackers. Several hospitals are ...

World Hand Hygiene Day will be celebrated on 5 May 2020. This year’s campaign theme, “SAVE LIVES: Clean your hands”, aligns with the International Year of the Nurse and the Midwife. The campaign aims ...

Running from patient room to patient room, it can be surprisingly easy for doctors and nurses to forget to wash their hands, especially if they’re dealing with an emergency. Hospitals have been ...

If there is one group of clinicians that is particularly pivotal to the success of any quality improvement initiatives — including though regarding hand hygiene compliance — it’s the nurses who work ...

Health system is focusing on new technology and new innovations to improve patient safety, quality director says. Although observations showed a 90% hand hygiene compliance across the health system ...

A study in the American Journal of Infection Control found nurses’ hand hygiene compliance rate in Brazil between June 2006 to August 2009 was 77.9 percent, compared with 44.6 percent among physicians ...

(TNS) — In the past, inhouse spies have monitored compliance. In the near future, radio-frequency monitoring will be used. Because at a hospital, an employee with dirty hands can have severe ...