In the war to prevent hospital-acquired infections, nurses are better about   washing their hands than doctors, a new study found.

Despite   widespread evidence that alcohol-based hand rub is the cheapest and most   effective way to prevent infection, the World   Health Organization says poor hand hygiene remains the cause of millions of   infections every year and leads to hundreds of thousands of deaths.

“As resistance to antibiotics and other key medicines becomes more common, it   is more essential than ever to reduce the number of avoidable infections in   hospital,” said Edward Kelley, coordinator of the patient safety   program at WHO. “The best way of reducing the number of people contracting   antimicrobial resistant infections is to protect them from cross-transmission of   germs through healthcare workers’ hands in the first place.”

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