| Subject: | JCAHO Focusing on Hand Hygiene |
| Category: | Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)
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| Published: | Thu, 18 Nov 2004 - 10:00 am |
| In the JCAHO's latest publication of Improving Healthcare and Quality an article entitled "Hand Hygiene" outlined problem areas and solutions to those problems related to lack of proper hand hygiene performed by healthcare workers.
The article listed the following as problematic areas for maintenance of proper hand hygiene:
Lack of recognition that all areas of human skin can be colonized by bacteria with routine activities such as taking a pulse resulting with staff... The full article is available to StayAlert subscribers. Click here for a free trial subscription. |
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