Failures in stethoscope hygiene can lead to patient infections

(Elsevier) You can lead a doctor to disinfection, but how do you get them to clean ... or wipe ... or swab a stethoscope?That's the question raised by a new quality improvement project published in the July issue of the American Journal of Infection Control, the official journal of the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology. It is the latest report to find that healthcare providers rarely perform stethoscope hygiene between patient encounters, despite its importance ...