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WHO Guidelines on Hand Hygiene in Health Care: First Global Patient Safety Challenge Clean Care Is Safer Care.
Geneva: World Health Organization; 2009.
Table of contents
Review of preparations used for hand hygiene.
Appendix 6, WHO global survey of patient experiences in hand hygiene improvement.
Appendix 2, Guide to appropriate hand hygiene in connection with Clostridium difficile spread.
The WHO Multimodal Hand Hygiene Improvement Strategy.
Practical issues and potential barriers to optimal hand hygiene practices.
CONSENSUS RECOMMENDATIONS.
Assessing the economic impact of hand hygiene promotion.
Surgical hand preparation: state-of-the-art.
Religious and cultural aspects of hand hygiene.
Hand hygiene as a performance indicator.
Formulating strategies for hand hygiene promotion.
Hand hygiene practices among health-care workers and adherence to recommendations.
Guidelines’ preparation process.
Transmission of pathogens by hands.
AKNOWLEDGEMENTS.
Organizing an educational programme to promote hand hygiene.
Methods to evaluate the antimicrobial efficacy of handrub and handwash agents and formulations for surgical hand preparation.
Components of the empowerment process.
The burden of health care-associated infection.
COMPARISON OF NATIONAL AND SUB-NATIONAL GUIDELINES FOR HAND HYGIENE.
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