The World Health Organization Guidelines on Hand Hygiene in Health Care and Their Consensus Recommendations
By Didier Pittet, B. Allegranzi, J. Boyce. Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology, 2009
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The World Health Organization's Guidelines on Hand Hygiene in Health Care have been issued by WHO Patient Safety on 5 May 2009 on the occasion of the launch of the Save Lives: Clean Your Hands initiative. The Guidelines represent the contribution of more than 100 international experts and provide a comprehensive overview of essential aspects of hand hygiene in health care, evidence- and consensus-based recommendations, and lessons learned from testing their Advanced Draft and related implementation tools.
Subfields: Infectious Diseases, Microbiology, Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine
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- The Changing Epidemiology of Clostridium difficile Infections (2010, background): “Current World Health Organization (WHO) guidelines on hand hygiene (156) recommend a two-pronged approach to hand disinfection: (i) if exposure to sporulating pathogens is suspected, hand washing with soap and water is preferred, and (ii) in all other clinical situations, if hands are not visibly so”