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Hospitals install spying cameras to track hand washing rates among medical workers

12/21/2011 - Roughly 100,000 people die every year from hospital-acquired infections, and many of these could be prevented if more medical workers simply remembered to wash and sanitize their hands throughout the day, say experts. One way some hospitals are drastically increasing hand washing rates is by installing...

247 Americans Die Every Day from Doctors not Washing Their Hands

1/20/2010 - A study commissioned by the lead hospital accrediting agency in the United States found that doctors and nurses fail to wash their hands with alarming frequency, contributing to the 247 deaths caused each day by preventable hospital infections. The Joint Commission, which accredits hospitals, nursing...

How to get your doctor to sing Happy Birthday while he washes his hands (satire)

10/31/2009 - I recently saw a poster in a medical building that stopped me cold. It was about influenza, and it said the following: To avoid spreading germs, wash your hands for as long as it takes to sing Happy Birthday to yourself. I did a double take. Really? Wash your hands while you sing Happy Birthday as...

Regular Hand Washing Makes Tremendous Positive Impact on Family Health

6/22/2008 - Several new studies published in the American Journal of Infection Control have demonstrated just how important hand washing is in preventing the transmission of disease in a household setting. The majority of prior studies on the importance of hand washing, which have implicated touch as the single...

CDC's "Germstoppers" campaign uses low-brow language to teach complex hand washing skills (satire)

8/4/2006 - The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) in the United States has a new program called "Germstoppers." This program consists -- in part -- of a full-page brochure that various institutions -- such as health clinics and hospitals -- can paste in their windows. The "Germstoppers" brochure attempts to educate...

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