Nearly 97 percent of health professionals wash their hands when patients are asked to watch: Study

Improving hand hygiene compliance by healthcare professionals is no easy task, but a first-of-its-kind study shows simply asking patients to audit their healthcare professional is yielding high marks. details the findings of an 11-month pilot project looking at an alternative method of hand hygiene auditing using the patient-as-observer approach. In this method, patients observe and record hand hygiene compliance of their healthcare providers via a survey distributed before their interaction wit...