Hand Hygiene for Health Professionals

Hand hygiene information, research, and guidelines for health care workers.

• Guideline for Hand Hygiene in Health-Care Settings: CDC
  The hand hygiene guidelines are part of an overall CDC strategy to reduce infections in health care settings to promote patient safety.
   
• Hand hygiene in outpatient and home-based care and long-term care facilities: WHO
  World Health Organization guide to the application of the WHO multimodal hand hygiene improvement strategy and the “My Five Moments For Hand Hygiene” approach for use in outpatient, home-based care, and long-term care facilities.