Register now or log in to join your professional community.
It's a new technique by WHO.
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 consensusbased recommendations, and lessons learned from testing their Advanced Draft and related implementation tools.
The World Health Organization (WHO) First Global Patient Safety Challenge, launched in October 2005 and aimed at reducing healthcare-associated infection worldwide, identified
the promotion of hand hygiene practices in health care as a priority measure and the entry point to improve infection control in Member States.2
