Patients who have a new tool to ask physicians about their hand hygiene feel more empowered to do so, researchers say. The tool, a cardboard paddle (similar to a ping-pong racquet), has a question: “Did You Wash Your Hands?”. The study was published in the American Journal of Infection Control, the official journal of the… Continue reading Physicians, Health Care Workers and Hand Hygiene
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New Guidelines for Some Hospital Visitors
Experts have issued new guidelines for people visiting hospital patients with infectious diseases. The recommendations were published in Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology, the journal of the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America (SHEA). “Visitors have initiated or been involved in healthcare-associated infection outbreaks, but it is unknown to what extent this occurs in the… Continue reading New Guidelines for Some Hospital Visitors