The CDC and GOJO, a producer and marketer of skin health and hygiene solutions, have formed a partnership to provide unbranded hand hygiene tools and educational materials for patients, healthcare ...

College students may not be washing their hands properly, according to researchers who found that more than half of the students tested had large amounts of different types of bacteria on their hands.

May 5 is World Hand Hygiene Day. To celebrate the occasion, the CDC has launched Clean Hands Count, a campaign to boost hand-washing and reduce healthcare-associated infections. More specifically, the ...

The course, and associated promotional materials, reviews key concepts of hand hygiene and other standard precautions to prevent healthcare-associated infections. Topics addressed include: What are ...

The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) highlights frequent hand hygiene as one of the most important acts in preventing disease. Hand hygiene includes washing and sanitizing hands. Let us review these ...

The CDC provides free, downloadable posters and a screen saver intended to emphasize the concepts and techniques to increase hand hygiene at your facility. The posters — five different messages — are ...

Adhering to hand hygiene practices improves patient safety and outcomes, with the hand hygiene market likely to expand, according to a Transparency Market Research report. 1. World Health Organization ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention offers a free training tool designed to facilitate employee training on hand hygiene. The interactive hand hygiene education, presented as a slide show ...

The story about hand washing in health care is short: hand washing is a simple, inexpensive way to prevent infections that have complex, costly implications. Yet healthcare workers (HCWs) clean their ...