Roughly five years ago Rhode Island Hospital in Providence had a hand hygiene problem. Only 40-50 percent of all hand washing that was supposed to take place was actually happening, and, as a result, ...
New data from Hill-Rom (NYSE: HRC) shows its hand-hygiene compliance system dramatically increases hand washing among hospital staff using the system. Analysis of more than 20 million instances of ...
Doctors, get ready to wash your hands. Maryland Lt. Gov. Anthony Brown announced on Tuesday plans for a $100,000 initiative to ensure that hospital employees statewide wash their hands properly. The ...
Hygiene practices have come a long way since the CDC first published national hygiene guidelines in the 1980s. With so much to keep track of, a nurse leader summarized some of the latest practice ...
CHICAGO HOSPITAL STUDIES HAND HYGIENE COMPLIANCE: Hand hygiene among University of Chicago Medical Center workers improved early in the pandemic before dropping to pre-COVID levels after just four ...
Hand washing by health care workers -- the key to infection control -- is being eyed by cameras at a Long Island hospital where a monitor displays compliance in the latest high-tech step to enforce ...
Almost one in two people using a hospital toilet did not wash their hands afterwards, according to new research from the University of Surrey - raising serious concerns about hygiene compliance in ...
Hand-washing, patient falls and injuries and collapsed lungs were cited as areas of concern for metro-east area hospitals this autumn, according to a watchdog report released Nov. 16. The Leapfrog ...
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