In 2020, the novel coronavirus has upended the world. In patient care facilities, staff are under tremendous pressure to contain COVID-19. Throughout this continued fight, maintaining effective ...

SAVE THE PATIENT Provides Hygiene Tips to Prevent Patients From Becoming Victims of Hospital-Acquired Infections CHICAGO, March 23, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- With infections contracted in ...

Some of this accusation is warranted. In a recent study in the American Journal of Infection Control, anesthesia providers documented hand hygiene compliance at only 2.9 percent. But while healthcare ...

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 foundational premise of Infection Prevention science is that contaminated environments increase the risk of transmission of healthcare associated infections, including those caused by multi-drug ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . As part of a pilot program, patients and visitors performed audits of HCW hand hygiene compliance. During the ...

Sometimes it's difficult to know what patients need comprehensively or what they want cosmetically. So instead of guessing, ask. How? I recommend to many of my clients that they use a hygiene patient ...

In order to achieve optimal oral health it is well documented in the literature that denture wearing patients should be advised to maintain high standards of both oral hygiene and denture hygiene. 1–6 ...

Today’s leaders of healthcare facilities are faced with the difficult challenge of convincing patients that it’s safe to return to critical and elective care. Patients are seeking assurances that ...

The ADA's code of ethics outlines the principle of nonmaleficence -- “Do no harm” -- as one of dentistry’s most fundamental ethical guideposts. It charges dental professionals with the responsibility ...

Treating waves of COVID-19 patients has forced many hospitals across the US to schedule fewer high-margin elective procedures, leading to furloughs and financial losses in some cases. Under these ...