Johns Hopkins Medicine has developed a number of free, downloadable resources to help improve hand hygiene at its organizations, with one such resource a hand hygiene observations form. The form ...

1. The World Health Organization offers a free, downloadable observation form that includes a basic compliance calculation table as well as general recommendations for successful hand hygiene ...

Compliance with the World Health Organization’s “My 5 Moments for Hand Hygiene” approach is low, a study published in the American Journal of Infection Control found. Using a modified WHO hand hygiene ...

Memorial Healthcare budgets to implement Intelligent Observations' sensor-driven approach systemwide. As the COVID-19 pandemic rages on, a small but growing number of hospitals are investigating or ...

Johns Hopkins Medicine developed two tools intended to help healthcare organizations observe and document hand hygiene compliance. 1. Observe hand hygiene upon entry and exit from patient environments ...