Prevalence

Overall hand hygiene compliance increased during a 2-year “friendly competition” in the Netherlands in which staff at 10 health care centers were observed and ranked based on their compliance, according to researchers.

Carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae, or CRE, is transmitted within and between a variety of health care settings in Washington, D.C., a study presented at the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of American spring conference suggests.