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

By J. Boyce, Didier Pittet. Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology, 2002

1,587 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Food Science, Infectious Diseases

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In Food Science

1. Rob Knight
2. A. Edris
3. B. Allegranzi
4. Noah Fierer
5. C. Lauber
6. Micah Hamady
7. Didier Pittet
8. Patrick D. Schloss

In Infectious Diseases

1. G. Kampf
2. A. Kramer
3. A. Edris
4. B. Allegranzi
5. Rob Knight
6. Noah Fierer
7. C. Lauber
8. Micah Hamady

Citations in the corpus

• Guidelines for the prevention of intravascular catheter-related infections. (2002, neutral): “Proper hand hygiene can be achieved through the use of either an al-cohol-based product [255] or with soap and water with adequate rinsing [77].”
• Antimicrobial photodynamic therapy – what we know and what we don’t (2018, background): “Thereby, many of these studies showed promising results, often achieving inactivation rates of more than 5 log10 steps of CFU (colony forming units), which is defined as a disinfecting effect according to infection control guidelines (Boyce and Pittet 2002).”
• Guidelines for environmental infection control in health-care facilities. Recommendations of CDC and the Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee (HICPAC). (2003, background): “, gloves), and isolation precautions during cleaning and disinfecting procedures (146,274,318,319).”
• Guidelines for the prevention of intravascular catheter-related infections. (2002, neutral): “Proper hand hygiene can be achieved through the use of either an alcohol-based product [255] or with soap and water with adequate rinsing [77].”
• The influence of sex, handedness, and washing on the diversity of hand surface bacteria (2008, methodology): “For this table, we used the Hugenholtz classification scheme against the Greengenes database (10), and the sequences were classified to the level of taxonomic resolution deemed to be most appropriate.”
• 'My five moments for hand hygiene': a user-centred design approach to understand, train, monitor and report hand hygiene. (2007, background): “Reporting results of hand hygiene observation to HCWs is an essential element of multi-modal strategies to improve hand hygiene practices.(21,27,59) Therefore, reporting details on riskspecific hand hygiene performance may increase the impact of any feedback and make it possible to monitor progress ”