Healthcare workers under direct observation perform hand hygiene events nearly three times more often every hour than those not under observation, according to a study published in Infection Control ...

Healthcare leaders are under pressure to drive quality improvement, eliminate hospital-acquired conditions to avoid penalties and increase economic efficiencies. They know direct observation is ...

Memorial Healthcare budgets to implement Intelligent Observations' sensor-driven approach systemwide. As the COVID-19 pandemic rages on, a small but growing number of hospitals are investigating or ...

Researchers from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Washington University in St. Louis, Mo., and The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, studied the impact of ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Researchers from Germany observed a marked influence of the Hawthorne effect on hand hygiene compliance among ...

University of Michigan Health and Newark Beth Israel Medical Center have increased hand hygiene compliance significantly. The results of two technology-based hand hygiene improvement initiatives were ...

Hand hygiene (HH) monitoring in hospitals could be reduced significantly, allowing infection preventionists to redirect efforts toward quality improvement and patient safety initiatives, according to ...

Here’s what you need to know. 1. When it concerns hand hygiene, direct observation is a very limited practice. Observers can only examine a portion of all hand hygiene behaviors, and the incidences ...

Physicians and nurses are significantly more likely to comply with handwashing guidelines when they know they are being watched, a new study suggests. The finding, published online July 5 in the ...

Hand hygiene is the simplest, most effective way to prevent the spread of infections in healthcare, yet healthcare worker adherence is often low. Infection preventionists at two health systems will ...

It’s been more than 150 years since Ignaz Semmelweis, the so-called “father of hand hygiene,” highlighted the benefits of handwashing among healthcare workers, and yet there’s still room for ...

October 26, 2011 (Boston, Massachusetts) — According to George Bernard Shaw, "the greatest problem in communication is the illusion that it has been accomplished." It appears that this also applies to ...