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The World Health Organization Guidelines on Hand Hygiene in Health Care and Their Consensus Recommendations
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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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Hand washing for preventing diarrhoea
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“Wash hands with soap and water when visibly dirty or visibly soiled with blood or other body fluids (IB) or after using the toilet (II).(8-18) B.”
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- Authors
- Pittet, D., Allegranzi, B., Boyce, J., & World Health Organization World Alliance for Patient Safety First Global Patient Safety Challenge Core Group of Experts
- Venue
- Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press (CUP)
- Published
- 2009-07
- Volume
- 30
- Issue
- 7
- Pages
- 611-622
- ISSN
- 0899-823X (ISSN-L)
- 1559-6834
- OpenAlex
- W2133918285
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- 797
- References
- 4
- FWCI
- 21.57
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
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