A study, published in American Journal of Infection Control, compared continuous closed circle television with overt observation for monitoring hand hygiene compliance among healthcare workers in a ...

A study published in the American Journal of Infection Control found covert observation of hand hygiene compliance helps detect change over time, but may not improve compliance as much as thought.

Overt hand hygiene compliance audits have shown a large gap in compliance between nurses and physicians, with nurses washing their hands more often than physicians. But a new study in the Journal of ...