A recent Cambridge University-led study found evidence that a new app that lets patients watch a video of themselves washing their hands or touching a dirty object could be key to improving obsessive ...

When Shanina Knighton began pursuing her doctorate in nursing in 2013, she set out to seek evidence to support a theory. She’d noticed that, during the H1N1 pandemic, patient hand hygiene wasn’t ...

The Institute for Healthcare Improvement, in collaboration with the CDC, the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology and the Society of Healthcare Epidemiology of America, ...

One major point the COVID-19 pandemic helped drive home is how important it is to wash your hands. Washing your hands is ...

As far as the germ transmission goes, Dr. Schleiss notes that proper hand hygiene mitigates the risks associated with shaking hands. "If we're going to live in a world where doctors don't wash their ...

Hand-washing adherence is on the up-and-up as more hospitals are holding their leadership accountable for hand hygiene, patient safety watchdog The Leapfrog Group reports. Since it began collecting ...

Encouraging doctors and nurses to wash their hands frequently has always been considered an effective way to curb the spread of infection in hospitals and other health facilities. But a research ...

The Minnesota Department of Health provides a free, downloadable poster that displays “Wash Your Hands” in 24 languages. The languages presented on the poster are as follows: English, Amharic, Arabic, ...

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