Fifteen seconds. That is all it takes to clean your hands with hand sanitizers to provide optimal infection prevention and control.
Alcohol-based hand sanitizers are increasingly popular as a quick, convenient way to protect against the spread of organisms. However, data regarding optimal usage have been slim. Researchers in Switzerland set out to determine how to best use hand sanitizers to prevent the spread of bacteria (Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol 2017;38[5]:547-552).