Healthcare worker adoption rates of protocols in the World Health Organization’s primary hand hygiene program, My Five Moments for Hand Hygiene, depend on the type of hospital unit, type of ...

The effectiveness of the World Health Organization’s My 5 Moments for Hand Hygiene method is well-documented, but a new study published in the American Journal of Infection Control calls into question ...

When Shanina Knighton began pursuing her doctorate in nursing in 2013, she set out to seek evidence to support a theory. She’d noticed that, during the H1N1 pandemic, patient hand hygiene wasn’t ...

Hand hygiene may feel like a simple, barely consequential health practice. But it has the power to save lives — including in nursing homes, where infections are common. Researchers studied 26 French ...

Every year, May 5 marks World Hand Hygiene Day, an initiative by the World Health Organization (WHO) to remind everyone—from healthcare professionals to the general public—about the critical role that ...