WHO Guidelines on Hand Hygiene in Health Care, First Global Patient Security Challenge: Clean Care is Safer Care

The WHO Guidelines on Hand Hygiene in Healthcare supply health-care employees (HCWs), medical facility administrators and health authorities with a thorough review of evidence on hand hygiene in healthcare and specific suggestions to enhance practices and decrease transmission of pathogenic microbes to clients and HCWs. Today Guidelines are meant to be carried out in any circumstance in which healthcare is delivered either to a patient or to a specific group in a population. Therefore, this principle uses to all settings where healthcare is permanently or sometimes carried out, such as home care by birth attendants. Definitions of health-care settings are proposed in Appendix 1. These Standards and the associated WHO Multimodal Hand Health Enhancement Technique and an Implementation Toolkit (http://www.who.int/gpsc/en/) are created to provide health-care facilities in Member States a conceptual structure and useful tools for the application of recommendations in practice at the bedside. While guaranteeing consistency with the Guidelines suggestions, individual adjustment according to regional guidelines, settings, requirements, and resources is preferable. This comprehensive evaluation consists of in one file adequate technical details to support training materials and help plan implementation strategies. The file consists of six parts.

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