The Joint Commission’s Center for Transforming Healthcare has announced that more than 1,090 hand hygiene projects are currently in progress, according to Joint Commission Online. The Center for ...

Hospitals are ramping up their focus on hand hygiene compliance to prevent infections and improve patient safety, new data from The Leapfrog Group suggests. In 2020, when Leapfrog began collecting and ...

While soap and water remain the gold standard when hands are visibly dirty or after restroom use, alcohol-based sanitizers containing 60 to 95 percent alcohol serve as a powerful and effective backup ...

Hand hygiene (HH) monitoring in hospitals could be reduced significantly, allowing infection preventionists to redirect efforts toward quality improvement and patient safety initiatives, according to ...