Each year more than 1.7 million patients in the United States acquire infections while in healthcare facilities. Refreshing basic steps for hand hygiene is crucial for the survival of the healthcare ...

Nancy Burden, director of ambulatory surgery for BayCare Health System, describes how her ASC has worked to improve hand hygiene.Proper hand hygiene is an essential component of safe care. It has ...

Healthcare workers can follow all of the World Health Organization’s recommended hand hygiene steps for using alcohol-based hand rub, but still make mistakes and miss some areas of their hands, ...

The majority of germs that cause serious infections in humans are transmitted by people’s actions. One of the effective means to prevent these infections is by practicing good hand hygiene. Several ...

Editor’s note: This is the third in a series of articles in which we will bring in an expert to address some of the misinformation we have read in various social ...

A seismic demographic shift is afoot, with older adults expected to outnumber children by the year 2034 for the first time in U.S. history. This will result in higher demand for long-term care ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Amid the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, select units at the University of Chicago Medical Center achieved ...

Why is hand hygiene important in the COVID-19 pandemic? Our hands can be a critical vector in the transmission of infectious organisms. Infectious viruses can persist on surface materials for several ...

A lack of soap is the most often reported barrier to effective hand hygiene—key to curbing the spread of infection—in shared community spaces, such as households, schools, and public places, finds a ...

Chuck Crawford comments on the demand for hand sanitizer and what steps Purell plans on taking to meet the demand Recommendations on how to maximize the sanitization properties of Purell’s hand ...