Hand hygiene placards posted in a Denver hospital — including one that featured an image of two eyes looking directly at the viewer with a reminder to clean their hands — did not result in measurable improvements in hand hygiene adherence among health care workers, researchers reported. The researchers electronically monitored 166 nurses and certified nursing assistants and collected 184,172 electronic observations. According to the study, the median number of electronic observations was 1,471.

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