Hand hygiene adherence reached an almost perfect level in a pilot study requiring patients to become active players in their healthcare treatments, according to a study in the American Journal of ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . As part of a pilot program, patients and visitors performed audits of HCW hand hygiene compliance. During the ...

More research needed on best way for patients to promote health care providers hand hygiene HealthDay News — There is limited understanding of patients’ and health care professionals’ perceptions ...

A study published in the 2013 supplement of Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control found that patients are less likely than healthcare workers to agree with the concept of a patient role in ...

Despite significant changes in infection prevention practices since the introduction of the CMS Conditions for Coverage requirements, hand hygiene practices continue to be inconsistent and fall short ...

A hand hygiene joint project between the Department of Veterans Affairs and 3M produced a number of valuable tools that used the Six Sigma process, including a free, downloadable questionnaire for ...

Sometimes it's difficult to know what patients need comprehensively or what they want cosmetically. So instead of guessing, ask. How? I recommend to many of my clients that they use a hygiene patient ...