Impact of education, information on hand hygiene compliance

Tuesday, October 29, 2013 - 16:30 in Health & Medicine

How often do you clean your hands? One observed hospital staff on 161,526 occasions to monitor how often they cleaned their hands (i.e., hand hygiene) between July 2008 to Dec. 2012 and found that hand hygiene compliance improved from 60 percent to 89 percent over that time period.

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