Background: Family medicine offices may play an important role in the transmission of
common illnesses such as upper respiratory tract infections (URTIs). There has, however …

Objective To describe nurse hand hygiene practices in the home health care (HHC) setting,
nurse adherence to hand hygiene guidelines, and factors associated with hand hygiene …

Background Patient, family, and visitor hand hygiene can prevent health care-associated
infections, but little is known about their hand hygiene knowledge, attitudes, and practices …

In this observational study, the perceptions, compliance, techniques, and contextual issues
of hand hygiene practices among community clinicians (nurses) during 103 hand hygiene …

Context Under routine hospital conditions handwashing compliance of health care workers
including nurses, physicians, and others (eg, physical therapists and radiologic technicians) …

Background Hand hygiene at the point of care is recognized as a best practice for promoting
compliance at the moments when hand hygiene is most critical. The objective of this study …

Background. Despite agreement that handwashing decreases hospital-acquired infections
(HAIs), physician hand hygiene remains suboptimal. Interventions to empower patients to …

Article-at-a-Glance Background Monitoring hand hygiene guideline compliance in an
ambulatory environment can be challenging. For example, direct observation by …

BACKGROUND: Patient participation has been proven to increase hand hygiene
compliance of health care workers. The objective of the study is to better understand …

The purpose of this study was to evaluate hand washing behaviors in public restrooms with
and without reminder signs. Gender, race, signage, and time of day were examined to …