The ASC Quality Collaboration offers a free, downloadable sample hand hygiene policy and procedure. Under the draft policy, “all members of the healthcare team will comply with current CDC hand ...

A Maryland health coalition has launched what has been nicknamed the "secret shopper" hospital project in which teams of unidentified employees will monitor colleagues' hand hygiene each time they ...

Researchers observed that even during a high-profile norovirus outbreak, students followed recommended hand hygiene procedures just 17 percent of the time. In a self-reported survey after the outbreak ...

Although proper hand-washing procedures are the best way to reduce methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) while treating patients, a new study reveals hand hygiene itself is only one piece ...

New health care technology could sniff out one of the leading causes of death in the United States. HyGreen hand hygiene sensors, developed at the University of Florida, can detect whether doctors and ...

(Reuters Health) - Teaching toddlers in daycare to use hand sanitizers could go a long way in keeping them from falling ill, missing school and reducing their need for antibiotics, a study suggests.

The Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture oversees restaurant inspections in the state. Inspection reports are "snapshots" of the day and time the inspections took place. In many cases, violations ...