As healthcare reform focuses more on value for patients, many hospitals are making quality and patient safety top goals. However patient safety is a broad category of important issues. Here, Gina ...

Some of this accusation is warranted. In a recent study in the American Journal of Infection Control, anesthesia providers documented hand hygiene compliance at only 2.9 percent. But while healthcare ...

Kimberly-Clark, as part of its healthcare-associated infections website, provides a free, downloadable flyer for patients on hand hygiene. The two-page “Patient’s Guide to Hand Hygiene” identifies ...

The CDC, with support from the CDC Foundation and Kimberly-Clark Corp., have developed a free, downloadable brochure on hand hygiene for patients. The brochure answers questions about why hand hygiene ...

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 ...

A foundational premise of Infection Prevention science is that contaminated environments increase the risk of transmission of healthcare associated infections, including those caused by multi-drug ...

When patients remind doctors about hand hygiene it improves compliance rates, but physicians don't necessarily welcome the suggestion. And overall, physicians said they would prefer a patient make the ...

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 ...

Most pharma companies strive to put patients at the heart of every aspect of their business and this has inevitably changed how we approach patient engagement. Other forces at play have also made this ...

You can lead a doctor to disinfection, but how do you get them to clean ... or wipe ... or swab a stethoscope? That's the question raised by a new quality improvement ...