As healthcare reform focuses more on value for patients, many hospitals are making quality and patient safety top goals. However patient safety is a broad category of important issues. Here, Gina ...

Adherence to proven protocols for disinfecting surgeons' hands, patients' skin, and operating room surfaces could help to halt the spread of dangerous Staphylococcus aureus (S. aureus) pathogens in ...

To supplement the material and analysis provided by Becker’s Clinical Quality and Infection Control, Becker’s Healthcare offers an online database of free and low-cost downloadable patient safety ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . As part of a pilot program, patients and visitors performed audits of HCW hand hygiene compliance. During the ...

The global hospital hygiene management market size was valued at US$ 11.1 Bn in 2025 and is projected to reach US$ 32.7 Bn by ...

You can lead a doctor to disinfection, but how do you get them to clean ... or wipe ... or swab a stethoscope? That's the question raised by a new quality improvement ...

Hand Hygiene Checklist: 5 Suggestions for Process Improvement Despite significant changes in infection prevention practices since the introduction of the CMS Conditions for Coverage requirements, hand ...

A hand hygiene joint project between the Department of Veterans Affairs and 3M produced a number of valuable tools that used the Six Sigma process, including a free, downloadable questionnaire for ...

Adherence to proven protocols for disinfecting surgeons' hands, patients' skin, and operating room surfaces could help to halt the spread of dangerous Staphylococcus aureus (S. aureus) pathogens in ...