To supplement the material and analysis provided by Becker’s Clinical Quality and Infection Control, Becker’s Healthcare offers an online database of free and low-cost downloadable patient safety ...

Hand hygiene is one of the most effective, affordable and universal tools we have to prevent the transmission of infections and provide high-quality, clean and safe medical care. While medical gloves ...

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 ...

A study, published in The Journal of Hospital Infection, examined factors affecting hand hygiene compliance before entering the patient room and at the bedside. The researchers analyzed hand hygiene ...

— -- 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 hygiene remains a cornerstone of infection prevention in healthcare settings, vital for curtailing the transmission of multidrug‐resistant organisms and reducing the incidence of ...