Most international standards for hand sanitizer used in healthcare settings do not take hand size into account when recommending how much hand sanitizer to use, but a new study in the American Journal ...

Nurses’ roles in hand hygiene improvement initiatives, videos promoting hand hygiene awareness and the possible role sinks play in spreading germs captured the attention of infection control and ...

A reader of the Becker’s Operating Room Clinical Quality & Infection Control E-Weekly contacted us with the following question. The answer to the question was provided by the Association for ...

Kontakt.io is offering its hand hygiene solution with rewards offered for compliance so that healthcare workers treat handwashing similar to exercising with fitness trackers. Several hospitals are ...

The Johns Hopkins Center for Innovation in Quality Patient Care provides a free, downloadable and adaptable card for patients to fill out when observing whether their healthcare providers are ...

Tork, an Essity brand and the global leader in professional hygiene, has announced its 10 th annual participation in the World Hand Hygiene Day activation with this year’s theme of “It’s Always Hand ...

— -- For doctors and nurses, hand hygiene is supposed to be as intuitive as breathing. But is this behavior really second-nature, or do health care workers need supervision to keep their hand ...

Hand sanitizer doesn’t work against all pathogens. The product isn’t as effective as proper hand washing. There are other ways to lower the risk of getting sick this season. Hand sanitizer has been ...