Results from a hospital case study suggests healthcare professionals are still exhibiting low rates of hand hygiene compliance before gloving, according to a study published in the American Journal of ...

New York, NY, March 7, 2025 — The International Rescue Committee (IRC) has named the latest winners of the Wazoku crowdsourcing challenge which launched in April 2024 and focused on finding solutions ...

New York, NY , April 29, 2024 — The IRC is launching a new crowdsolving challenge in partnership with Wazoku and SeaFreight Labs. The challenge is called “Improving Health Provider Hand Hygiene” and ...

Hospitals are ramping up their focus on hand hygiene compliance to prevent infections and improve patient safety, new data from The Leapfrog Group suggests. In 2020, when Leapfrog began collecting and ...

In the realm of frontline healthcare, where the well-being of both patients and healthcare workers hangs in the balance, there is a heightened vulnerability of healthcare workers (HCWs) to ...

Some evidence shows hospital infection preventionists may be able to spend less time monitoring hand hygiene, according to a study published Dec. 19 in the American Journal of Infection Control.

Every year, May 5 marks World Hand Hygiene Day, an initiative by the World Health Organization (WHO) to remind everyone—from healthcare professionals to the general public—about the critical role that ...

Hand hygiene is one of the most effective, affordable and universal tools we have to prevent the transmission of infections and provide high-quality, clean and safe medical care. While medical gloves ...