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REMOVING BARRIERS IS CRITICAL TO PROPER HEALTHCARE HAND HYGIENE Make it easy for staff to stay clean by Ronnie Phillips
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he World Health Organization (WHO) has long recommended its five moments of point-of-care hand hygiene as a way to reduce the incidence of cross-contamination in healthcare settings. On paper, these moments are logical, obvious, even basic and elementary.
Yet the WHO’s own data shows that, on average, fewer than 40 per cent of healthcare workers follow hand hygiene best practices. With hospitals, medical clinics, senior living facilities, and virtually every kind of healthcare facility spending a substantial amount of time and money to help workers
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comply with infection prevention best practices, why does compliance remain consistently low? Through proprietary research, GP PRO learned that healthcare workers face a number of barriers to proper hand hygiene, including emergencies that require immediate
