Doctors' Hand Hygiene Plummets Unless They Know They're Being Watched, Study Finds Without supervision, doctors' hand-cleaning compliance plummets, study finds ...

While U.S. hospitals are required to have programs in place to improve hand hygiene, there’s no actual hand hygiene goal. As one expert acknowledged, “In theory, a hospital could report a hand ...

A trial in Thailand compared the effect of a compulsory hand-hygiene program for three interventions — using an alcohol-based sanitizer every hour, two hours, or before lunch — on absence from ...

Proper hand hygiene is essential to reduce COVID-19 transmission and preserve skin barrier integrity, according to a review published in Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology.