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Hand Hygiene Prevention

Trusted guidance and practical resources for prevention, surveillance, and implementation

APIC

APIC Guide to Hand Hygiene Programs for Infection Prevention

APIC implementation guide covering products, regulatory oversight, monitoring, program implementation, and behavior-change strategies.

APIC

APIC Toolkit for Patient Hand Hygiene

Toolkit with patient-hand-hygiene guidance, audit tool, and educational materials.

APIC

APIC Hand Hygiene

APIC Text chapter on hand-hygiene principles, program implementation, and safety.

WHO

WHO Guidelines on Hand Hygiene in Health Care

WHO evidence-based guideline on hand hygiene practices, implementation, and reduction of healthcare-associated infection transmission.

WHO

WHO Hand Hygiene Guidelines — Summary

Concise WHO summary of hand-hygiene recommendations and implementation principles.

WHO

WHO Hand Hygiene Self-Assessment Framework

Systematic facility-level tool for evaluating hand-hygiene promotion and practice and developing improvement plans.

WHO

WHO Resource Considerations for Hand Hygiene Improvement

WHO guidance on resources needed to implement and sustain a multimodal hand-hygiene improvement program.

AORN

AORN Guideline Essentials — Hand Hygiene

AORN perioperative key takeaways for hand hygiene and surgical hand antisepsis.

AORN

AORN 5 New Hand Hygiene Practices to Reduce Infection

Open-access AORN summary of perioperative hand-hygiene updates and surgical hand-antisepsis practices.

IHI

IHI Model for Improvement

Framework for testing and sustaining improvements in hand-hygiene reliability and compliance.

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