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When Shanina Knighton began pursuing her doctorate in nursing in 2013, she set out to seek evidence to support a theory. She’d noticed that, during the H1N1 pandemic, patient hand hygiene wasn’t ...

Hand hygiene is one of the most effective methods of preventing healthcare-associated infections. However, prevention depends on hand hygiene being performed when necessary, and the appropriate ...

While good hand hygiene among health professionals is accepted as the cornerstone of infection prevention and control, patient hand hygiene has received less attention. This article reviews the ...

Improving compliance with hand hygiene practices has been a challenge in all healthcare facilities including the long-term care (LTC) setting. One of the most common modes of transmission of pathogens ...

Infection prevention practices centered on hand hygiene (HH) protocols can save lives across all healthcare facilities, not just hospital settings. This includes nursing homes, according to a new ...

A study published in the American Journal of Infection Control examined hand hygiene rates at five tertiary care facilities over six months. The hospitals had implemented electronic hand hygiene ...

Hand hygiene may feel like a simple, barely consequential health practice. But it has the power to save lives — including in nursing homes, where infections are common. Researchers studied 26 French ...