[Guidelines on hand hygiene in health care institutions].

Skin reactions related to hand hygiene and selection of hand hygiene products.

BACKGROUND In October 2004, The World Health Organization (WHO) launched the World Alliance for Patient Safety. Within the alliance, the first priority of the Global Patient Safety Challenge is to reduce health care-associated infection. A key action within the challenge is to promote hand hygiene in health care globally as well as at the country level through the campaign "Clean Care is Safer ...

WHO Guidelines on Hand Hygiene in Health Care First Global Patient Safety Challenge Clean Care is Safer Care WHO GUIDELINES ON HAND HYGIENE IN HEALTH CARE

The World Health Organization Guidelines on Hand Hygiene in Health Care and their consensus recommendations.

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 consens...

Knowledge, attitudes, and practices of health-care workers regarding hand hygiene guidelines in Al-Qassim, Saudi Arabia: A multicenter study

Introduction Hand hygiene is one of the most important ways to reduce the prevalence of nosocomial infections, morbidity, mortality, and health-care costs among hospitalized patients worldwide. Objectives We addressed this study to assess knowledge, attitudes, and practices regarding hand hygiene guidelines among health-care workers. Methods A multicenter cross-sectional study conducted fro...

Effectiveness of an audible reminder on hand hygiene adherence.

BACKGROUND Multimodal interventions aim to improve health care workers' adherence to hand hygiene guidelines. Visitors are not primarily targeted, but may spread epidemic infections. Effective interventions that improve the adherence of visitors to hand hygiene guidelines are needed to prevent the transmission of epidemic infections to or from health care environments. METHODS An electronic m...