A lot of the hand hygiene discussion in healthcare revolves around clinician adherence to hand hygiene protocols, but patients also play an important role in this infection prevention measure. However ...

Physician compliance with hand hygiene protocols prior to patient examination may improve when physicians are asked to offer hand sanitizer to patients before washing their hands with the sanitizer ...

The management of Lakes Surgery Center in West Bloomfield, Mich., assigns staff members to different performance improvement program teams focusing on critical patient safety issues. One such team is ...

Washing your hands is a given if you want to avoid germs—but it's especially important after touching these microbe magnets.

Can changing a single word on a sign motivate doctors and nurses to wash their hands? Campaigns about hand-washing in hospitals usually try to scare doctors and nurses about personal illness, says ...

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 ...

Desperate to have their lives back, long COVID patients are turning to an expensive “last resort” therapy to cure the mysterious illness. Apheresis, or “blood washing,” is a process in which a ...

Hospitals and nursing homes in California and Illinois are testing a surprisingly simple strategy against the dangerous, antibiotic-resistant superbugs that kill thousands of people each year: washing ...