Washing your hands -- it's a ritual you do so often, you probably don't think much about it anymore. However, skimping on the basics could be costing your practice patients, according to a ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- A bacterial infection in 2010 that spread from the room of one patient to another served as the impetus of an intensive hand-washing program at MetroHealth Medical Center.Less ...

Handwashing in clinical settings prior to putting on gloves may not actually be the best policy for infection prevention, a new study has found. Hand hygiene is important, but past research has ...

Although proper hand-washing procedures are the best way to reduce methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus ... published by the Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control Journal, ...

This story was updated to include additional information on the violations. BRIGHTON TWP. — A series of hand-washing and infection control violations left residents in nine of 11 nursing units ...

Hand hygiene compliance increases with the use of an electronic monitoring system, according to research published in the American Journal of Infection Control. Researchers collected electronic data ...

Researchers translated an informative hand-washing song into 26 different languages to help promote hand hygiene compliance during the pandemic, according to an article published in The Journal of ...

Research published in the American Journal of Infection Control found education and visual reminders improved infection control compliance for nurse anesthetists. Researchers observed nurse ...

Today's Google Doodle depicts Ignaz Semmelweis, a Hungarian physician and "father of infection control," widely recognized as the first person to realize the medical benefits of handwashing.

Handwashing is a key element of new provincial standards to cut the risk of infection in Alberta health-care facilities. CBC News · Posted: Jan 16, 2008 4:47 PM EST | Last Updated: January 16 ...

Key handwashing moments Infection-control literature describes four key moments when health care staff must wash their hands: Before coming into contact with the patient or their environment; ...