Follow your curiosity

What discovery has been shared with you?

FACTREE gives you something interesting to discover every day — and something worth talking about together.

Start with one fact. Explore it, go deeper, then follow whichever branch catches your imagination.

Choose subjects for a surprise

Exploring any topic

Begin your discovery

Your next discovery is one click away.

Choose one or more subjects above, or leave Any Topic selected and let curiosity decide.

Medicine

Hand Hygiene Compliance Monitoring with Electronic Systems

Quick fact

Studies show that direct observation—the traditional method—overestimates hand hygiene compliance by up to 300%, because workers clean their hands more when they see they are being watched. Electronic monitoring systems, using sensors and badges, can measure actual behavior without this bias.

Why this is interesting

Hospitals claim high hand hygiene rates, yet infections still spread. How do we really know if healthcare workers are cleaning their hands?