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The World Health Organization Guidelines on Hand Hygiene in Health Care and Their Consensus Recommendations

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Didier Pittet ,
Benedetta Allegranzi ,
John Boyce  and
World Health Organization World Alliance for Patient Safety First Global Patient Safety Challenge Core Group of Experts
Didier Pittet*
Affiliation:
Infection Control Program, University of Geneva Hospitals and Faculty of Medicine, Geneva, Switzerland World Alliance for Patient Safety, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland
Benedetta Allegranzi
Affiliation:
World Alliance for Patient Safety, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland
John Boyce
Affiliation:
Hospital of Saint Raphael, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut
*
Infection Control Program, University of Geneva Hospitals and Faculty of Medicine, 4 Rue Gabrielle Perret-Gentil, 1211 Geneva 14, Switzerland ([email protected])
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Abstract

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.

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Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 30 , Issue 7 , July 2009 , pp. 611 - 622
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Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 2009

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