GOJO, a global producer and marketer of skin health and hygiene solutions and the inventors of PURELL, offers a free, downloadable and adaptable hand hygiene observation form for ambulatory surgery ...
Johns Hopkins Medicine has developed a number of free, downloadable resources to help improve hand hygiene at its organizations, with one such resource a hand hygiene observations form. The form ...
Health care-associated infections (HAIs) significantly impact patient outcomes, hospital expenses, and mortality rates in the United States. Hand hygiene stands as the most effective preventive method ...
Compliance with the World Health Organization’s “My 5 Moments for Hand Hygiene” approach is low, a study published in the American Journal of Infection Control found. Using a modified WHO hand hygiene ...
Discover how reducing hand hygiene observations from 200 to 50 per unit monthly can optimize infection preventionists' time, enhance safety culture, and improve patient outcomes. As the lead author, ...
Hand hygiene of hospital staff is notoriously difficult to monitor, yet few behaviors are as essential to patient health. A trial inside Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford has revealed that ...
Memorial Healthcare budgets to implement Intelligent Observations' sensor-driven approach systemwide. As the COVID-19 pandemic rages on, a small but growing number of hospitals are investigating or ...