A recent study found that staff at outpatient care facilities fail to follow recommendations for hand hygiene 37% of the time, and for safe injection practices 33% of the time, even after having policies in place about these infection control issues (Am J Infect Control 2016;44:374-380).
Researchers from the University of New Mexico and the New Mexico Department of Health conducted a cross-sectional study of 15 geographically dispersed outpatient facilities in which medical students assessed