Helping hospitals with hand hygiene

Each year in Canada, almost 10,000 people die from hospital-acquired infections. Hand hygiene reduces infections. Toronto Rehab scientists have developed an easy-to-use electronic auditing tool, called HandyAudit®, that provides objective, accurate and consistent hand hygiene measurements. Another high-tech system that is currently being tested uses motion sensors and emitters to remind health-care workers to wash their hands.

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