Videotaping hand-washing can improve compliance Publish Date: 12/2/2011 More doctors and nurses washed their hands when video cameras were installed in every room in their unit and the staff was continuously informed about rates of hand-washing compliance, according to study findings published in Clinical Infectious Diseases and highlighted in a Nov. 30 Reuters report.The study was conducted in the intensive care unit at North Shore University Hospital in Manhasset, N.Y.