Recently, OPHARDT reached an important milestone with the granting of its 600th patent. It reflects a long-term commitment to research and...
600 Patents Granted – And More to Come
Hygiene Solutions for Schools: Suited to School Life
Modern hygiene solutions for schools are essential to strengthen the safety of everyone in the school environment. Well-functioning systems for hand...
Hand Hygiene on Cruise Ships: What a Recent Study Reveals
A recent scientific study examined how often passengers and crew on cruise ships wash or disinfect their hands – and whether current practices are...
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What do 57 research papers tell us about the current state of hand hygiene research in healthcare environments?
The ingo-man® delivers consistent dosage even after 1,000,000 hand disinfections, based on comprehensive testing by TÜV SÜD. For over 50 years, the ingo-man® euro dispenser has reliably supported doctors, nurses and medical staff in effective hand...
Healthcare workers want electronic feedback to improve hand hygiene in their workplaces, but they want this feedback to be tracked on a group level, not individually. These findings, recently published in the Journal of Hospital Infection, highlight...
Germany‘s public health insurer is reporting that hospitals and clinics are hiring more hygiene staff. This trend is primarily due to new funding made available through national health insurance funds. Even with these new measures, is there still a...
A simpler alternative to the well-established 6-steps of hygienic hand disinfection is now being proposed. Is this a fundemental change for hand hygiene? Hygienic hand disinfection is known to be the most important measure for preventing nosocomial...
For more than a year now, the novel COVID-19 has kept the world on edge. Since the virus first appeared in China more than 100 million people worldwide have been infected with it, and nearly 4,3 million people have died. [1] Faced with lockdowns and...
Accessibility of sanitizer dispensers is a major influencing factor in whether hospital visitors disinfect their hands when entering and leaving the building. Researchers uncover the disparities in perceived and actual hand hygiene behaviour in a...
In a banner year for uncertainty, it feels like an impossible task to imagine what will come after the COVID-19 pandemic. While it is hard to think of the future beyond the day-to-day, our ability to keep people safe may depend on thinking a step...
As some countries reopen schools and as others fiercely debate whether to, hygiene practices at our schools are focal points of attention and anxiety. For a prescient professor and OPHARDT Hygiene, it was already front-of-mind before the pandemic...
As many countries are fighting a second wave of COVID-19 infections, researchers have found one new explanation for why the disease has higher transmission rates than the flu. Clinical Infectious Diseases journal found that the coronavirus (SARS-CoV...