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 ...

The latest hand hygiene performance measures from Alberta Health Services show Edmonton hospitals went from worst to near-benchmark for how regularly hospital staff wash their hands over the past six ...

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 ...

Chicago-based Shriners Hospitals for Children has several fun and effective ways to help staff to keep their hands clean, the Daily Nurse reports. Kim Romberg, MSN, RN, infection preventionist at ...

For the study, Srigley and her team studied the hand washing habits of 279 adult patients in three multi-organ transplant units of a Toronto acute care teaching hospital over an e ...

After visiting Ellis Island in 1906, President Theodore Roosevelt noted the lack of hand-washing by doctors and wrote the Public Health Service that he was “struck by the way doctors made the ...

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 ...

This article is part of Privacy in the Pandemic, a Future Tense series. In order to stop the spread of the novel coronavirus, experts say we need some form of contact ...