Physician compliance with hand hygiene protocols prior to patient examination may improve when physicians are asked to offer hand sanitizer to patients before washing their hands with the sanitizer ...

When patients remind doctors about hand hygiene it improves compliance rates, but physicians don't necessarily welcome the suggestion. And overall, physicians said they would prefer a patient make the ...

Hospitals around the country focus efforts on improving employees' hand-hygiene compliance, but may want to spend more time encouraging hospitalized patients to wash their hands, according to a new ...

One of the best ways to prevent the spread of infection in hospitals is to make sure doctors and nurses wash their hands. But studies have shown that health-care professionals sometimes wash as little ...

Tuesday, Oct. 15 is Global Handwashing Day. Hand washing, while essential to infection control and prevention, suffers from perennially low compliance rates, sometimes as low as 40 percent in ...

A recent Cambridge University-led study found evidence that a new app that lets patients watch a video of themselves washing their hands or touching a dirty object could be key to improving obsessive ...