Health care workers, on average, sanitize their hands less than half the times they should, according to researchers -- raising the risk of infection when you visit a doctor’s office or hospital. How to protect yourself:
CDC: “Clean Hands Count for Safe Healthcare,” “Guidelines for Environmental Infection Control in Health Care Facilities.”
Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion: “Encouraging Patients to Speak Up for Clean Hands.”American College of Physicians: “How to clean a stethoscope.”: “To assess the stethoscope cleaning practices, microbial load and efficacy of cleaning stethoscopes with alcohol-based disinfectant in a tertiary care hospital.”The American Journal of MedicineAmerican Journal of Infection Control
: “Bacterial counts from hospital doctors’ ties are higher than those from shirts,” “Bacterial contamination of health care workers’ white coats,” “Differential laundering practices of white coats and scrubs among health care professionals,” “Are hospital floors an underappreciated reservoir for transmission of health-care associated pathogens?”: “Bacterial contamination of inanimate surfaces and equipment in the intensive care unit.
: “Bacterial colonization on writing pens touched by healthcare professionals and hospitalized patients with and without cleaning the pen with alcohol-based hand sanitizing agent.”
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