Hand Hygiene by GOJO

Special Advertising Section: Hand Hygiene—Always a Gentleman

If we have known that hand hygiene was necessary for patient safety and wellbeing since the 1860s, why has it taken so long to instill the habit of washing before and after treating a patient?

Hand Hygiene: Moving Toward the Five Moments

Much has been written and discussed about the Five Moments for Hand Hygiene from the World Health Organization (WHO).

Hand Hygiene: Monitoring to Improve Hand Hygiene

Management guru H. James Harrington wrote, “Measurement is the first step that leads to control and eventually to improvement. If you can’t measure something, you can’t understand it. If you can’t understand it, you can’t control it.

Hand Hygiene: Compliance Improvement through Technology

According to The World Health Organization (WHO; 2010), at least 7 of every 100 hospitalized patients in developed countries—and 10 out of 100 in developing countries—will experience a hospital-acquired infection (HAI). To reduce the risk, WHO recommends specific hand hygiene methods involving soap and water or an alcohol-based sanitizer.

Hand Hygiene Measurement and Education

Compliance improvement can be successful, sustained, and cost effective.

Special Advertising Section – Infection Control

Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) is an illness first reported in Saudi Arabia in 2012. It is caused by a coronavirus, MERS-CoV. Most people who have been confirmed to have MERS-CoV infection developed severe acute respiratory illness.

Hand Hygiene Compliance Monitoring Enhancements Help Customize Report Data

DebMed, creator of the world’s first electronic hand hygiene compliance monitoring system based on the World Health Organization’s (WHO’s) “Five Moments for Hand Hygiene,” has released enhanced functionality for the hand hygiene compliance reports that…

Cooley Dickinson Hospital Renews Contract for DebMed Hand Hygiene Monitoring System

DebMed has announced a three-year agreement with Cooley Dickinson Hospital for the use of its Group Monitoring System (GMS), the only electronic hand hygiene monitoring system that complies with the World Health Organization’s (WHO) Five Moments for…

GOJO Announces Launch of SMARTLINK™ Hand Hygiene Solutions

GOJO Industries, a leader in hand hygiene and skin health and inventors of PURELL® Hand Sanitizer, is assisting Texas Scottish Rite Hospital for Children (TSRHC) in measuring and improving hand hygiene compliance through its SMARTLINK Activity…

Infection Control: Basic and Advanced

Special Advertising Section Infection Control: Basic and Advanced By Tom Inglesby An estimated 30,800 fewer invasive methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) infections occurred in the United States in 2011 compared to 2005, according to a…