The Johns Hopkins Center for Innovation in Quality Patient Care provides a free, downloadable and adaptable card for patients to fill out when observing whether their healthcare providers are ...

A study, published in The Journal of Hospital Infection, examined factors affecting hand hygiene compliance before entering the patient room and at the bedside. The researchers analyzed hand hygiene ...

— -- For doctors and nurses, hand hygiene is supposed to be as intuitive as breathing. But is this behavior really second-nature, or do health care workers need supervision to keep their hand ...