1. Give patients hand sanitizer upon their arrival at the hospital and check in periodically to make sure they use it. 2. Pay special attention to hand hygiene at the end of shifts, as this is when ...

As the threat of AMR grows, hand hygiene compliance will become critical, but it is often difficult for healthcare environments to maintain. One of the best ways to improve compliance rates is to make ...

The work was supported by grants from the Wenner-Gren Foundations, the Royal Physiographic Society of Lund (the Fund of the Hedda and John Forssman Foundation), the Sten K Johnsson Foundation, the ...

Text messaging via smartphones can help increase hand hygiene compliance among healthcare workers, a study published in the American Journal of Infection Control found. Researchers studied the use of ...

Every year, May 5 marks World Hand Hygiene Day, an initiative by the World Health Organization (WHO) to remind everyone—from healthcare professionals to the general public—about the critical role that ...

Healthcare organizations have been promoting hand hygiene as a critical weapon against infections for decades, yet compliance rates have remained lower than desired. At the same time, some healthcare ...

Why is hand hygiene important in the COVID-19 pandemic? Our hands can be a critical vector in the transmission of infectious organisms. Infectious viruses can persist on surface materials for several ...