Hospitalized patients don't wash their hands enough, study finds

Wednesday, October 8, 2014 - 11:01 in Health & Medicine

Hospitalized patients wash their hands infrequently. They wash about 30 per cent of the time while in the washroom, 40 per cent during meal times, and only three per cent of the time when using the kitchens on their units, a study has found.

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