Infection prevention and control (IPC) processes and procedures are used in health care settings to prevent patients and health workers from being harmed by hospital-acquired infections, antimicrobial ...

Five medical organizations are recommending updated best practices for hand hygiene to protect patients and staff in healthcare settings. The recommendations emphasize the importance of healthy skin ...

Patients go to clinics and hospitals hoping to get better. But sometimes they end up getting sick because they pick up infections passed on by doctors and nurses who ...

— -- 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 ...

Healthcare workers washed their hands more diligently in the pandemic’s early months but quickly reverted back to their normal hand-hygiene behavior, says a new study — and the findings have ...

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 ...

Covering your mouth, washing your hands and not touching things with germ-ridden hands were some things East Aiken School of Arts students learned with a little skit. As part of Patient Safety Week, ...