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.

More about infection prevention and control:

• Infection Prevention and Control
  Guidelines, precautions, PPE, and other infection prevention and control information for health care workers and other health professionals.
   
• MDH Infection Control Assessment and Response (ICAR) Program
  Everyone has a role in preventing infections, including: administration, providers, nurses, pharmacists, infection control practitioners, nursing assistants, laboratorians, environmental services, emergency medical services, families, caregivers, and patients.