HYGIENE — Stickers are the chief export from this tiny Boulder County community. Stickers for breweries, tech companies, CrossFit gyms, labels for bakeries, marijuana dispensaries, beard-oil ...

Another way to utilize signage is to promote hand hygiene practices to your patients. The CDC also has patient-centered signage and badge stickers that ask patients to hold their providers accountable ...

It has promoted hand washing in daily print and online publications, handed out flyers, posted hygiene compliance rates, suggested talking points to unit managers, and distributed stickers.

Freeman and his wife (who also studied hand washing practices) placed a sticker on the back of their first child’s highchair to remind them to wash her hands before they all sat down to dinner.

Avoidable infections caused by inadequate hand hygiene result in worse patient outcomes — including avoidable procedures, higher antibiotic use, extended stays, more infections and deaths.

Many health-care workers do not wash their hands nearly as often as they should, but one Detroit hospital may have found a way to improve hand hygiene. The infection team at the Henry Ford Health ...

1. Problem: “Hand hygiene? It’s not a problem here” One of the biggest roadblocks to improving hand hygiene among healthcare workers is their unawareness of low compliance rates, according to Dr.