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 ...

Healthcare workers who wear gloves when treating patients are less likely to wash their hands between patients, a British study finds. Experts acknowledge that wearing gloves is appropriate when ...

In the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Guideline for Hand Hygiene in Health-Care Settings, the CDC identifies 15 self-reported factors for poor adherence with hand hygiene. While this ...

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, roughly one in 25 patients will contract a healthcare-associated infection. Physicians and healthcare workers, however, have the ability to ...

Health systems spend millions obtaining the latest technology to create state-of-the-art facilities and to build reputations for quality and innovation. But failing to maintain consistency in ...

In the realm of frontline healthcare, where the well-being of both patients and healthcare workers hangs in the balance, there is a heightened vulnerability of healthcare workers (HCWs) to ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . “The technique for the use of hand rub outlined in the WHO guidelines consists of six steps to ensure entire ...