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Patient empowerment in infection prevention: We all desire simple cooking recipe solutions – but they simply do not exist
Healthcare germs are posing an ever-increasing hazard. Measures to control and prevent their transmission to patients are primarily concentrated on the medical staff today. However,

To be or not to be safe, that’s the question!
Patient safety should be at the core of doctors’ work. Hans Härting, who has been working in the aviation industry for more than thirty years,

Keeping it sanitary – from Semmelweis’ time until today
The Swiss expert Prof. Dr. Didier Pittet stressed the substantial meaning of hand hygiene in hospitals once again at the third CEE Conference on Hospital

The WHO guidelines are clear – we just have to implement them!
“I wish that we soon do not need the Hand Hygiene Day anymore“- This was one of the audience’s statements at the symposium on the
Hospital Hygiene in Hungary: The implementation of daily work is lagging behind!
„Bringing hand hygiene to the national level – the case of Hungary“: The Co-Founder and CEO of HandInScan, is cautiously optimistic that the situation will

Infection Control in the CEE: A Brief Review
Education, training and staff increases: Many challenges in Infection Control remain to be tackled, concurred representatives of CEE countries at the 3rd CEE Conference on

Hand hygiene compliance is the key in neonatology units: General Hospital Vienna relies on modern technology for performance feedback
On a global scale, infections are the third leading cause of neonatal mortality. Therefore, a focus on careful hand hygiene practice plays a valuable part

World Antimicrobial Awareness Week 2021: Semmelweis Foundation went blue
For World Antibiotics Week, which takes place every year in November, the Semmelweis Foundation has launched a high-profile awareness campaign and called on employees and

Global Handwashing Day 2021: Hand hygiene and the fight against multi-resistant germs and hospital infections
Healthcare facilities are still a place of healing, but what if instead of healing, the opposite happens: and you get sick ? What we were