Guideline for Hand Hygiene in Health-Care Settings. Recommendations of the Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee and the HIPAC/SHEA/APIC/IDSA Hand Hygiene Task Force.

By J. Boyce, Didier Pittet. American Journal of Infection Control, 2002

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Pharmaceutical and therapeutic Potentials of essential oils and their individual volatile constituents: a review (2007, background): “…transmission in hospitalacquired infections is thought to be through hand carrying of pathogens from staff to patient, and from patient to patient (Boyce and Pittet, 2002; Naikoba and Hayward, 2001), and a relationship between hand hygiene and reduced transmission of infections been reported…”
Clostridium difficile Infection in Patients Discharged from US Short-stay Hospitals, 1996–2003 (2006, background): “difficile; this factor has led to the recommendation that “during outbreaks of CDAD, washing hands with a nonantimicrobial [agent] or antimicrobial soap and water after removing gloves is prudent”(26).”