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In its most basic meaning and application ‘hand hygiene’ is a term used to describe cleaning hands by using soap and warm water or by using an alcohol-based hand rub solution. Good hand hygiene is considered to be one of the most effective measures to help prevent the spread of bacteria such as MRSA or Clostridium difficile, alongside other measures that help control these infections. Hand hygiene is one of the most important ways to stop the spread of germs, and excellent hand hygiene practice is absolutely essential in the hospital environment, where sick patients are more vulnerable to infections than average healthy persons. If the hands of those caring for a patient, as well as the hands of the patient and their visitors, are kept clean, then the risk of the patient getting an infection will be greatly reduced.

In this book Professor Didier Pittet, the world's pre-eminent scholar and clinician on hand hygiene, and his colleagues offer the first comprehensive, single-source overview of best practice in hand hygiene for infection control and disease prevention. This book: 

• Developed and presented by the world leaders in this fundamental topic
• Fully integrates World Health Organization (WHO) guidelines and policies
• Offers a global perspective in tackling hand hygiene issues in developed and developing countries
• Includes coverage of basic and highly complex clinical applications of hand hygiene practices
• Considers novel and unusual aspects and issues in hand hygiene such as religious and cultural aspect and patient participation
• Offers guidance at the individual and institutional and organizational levels for national and worldwide and hygiene promotion campaigns

This book is relevant for infection control preventionists, infection control nurses, infectious disease specialists, patient safety experts, hospital epidemiologists, healthcare staff, hospital administrators, and public health departments throughout the world.

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Hospital Images: A Clinical Atlas
Paul B. Aronowitz, Editor, 2012

Becoming a Consummate Clinician: What Every Student, House Officer, and Hospital Practitioner Needs to Know
Ary L. Goldberger and Zachary D. Goldberger, Editors, 2012

Perioperative Medicine: Medical Consultation and Co-Management
Amir K. Jaffer and Paul J. Grant, Editors, 2012

Clinical Care Conundrums: Challenging Diagnoses in Hospital Medicine
James C. Pile, Thomas E. Baudendistel, and Brian J. Harte, Editors, 2013

Inpatient Cardiovascular Medicine
Brahmajee K. Nallamothu and Timir S. Baman, Editors, 2013

Hospital-based Palliative Medicine
Steven Pantilat, Wendy Anderson, Mathew Gonzales, Eric Widera, Editors, 2015

Didier Pittet, MD, MS, CBE, is the Hospital Epidemiologist and Director of the Infection Control Programme and WHO Collaborating Centre on Patient Safety at the University of Geneva Hospitals and Faculty of Medicine, Geneva, Switzerland; Professor of Medicine and Hospital Epidemiology at the University of Geneva. Professor Pittet is Lead of the World Health Organization First Global Patient Safety Challenge "Clean Care is Safe Care". He is the recipient of several national and international honours including a CBE (Commander of the British Empire) awarded by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II for services to the prevention of healthcare-associated infection in the UK (2007). Professor Pittet is co-author of more than 400 publications in peer-reviewed journals and  50 chapters in textbooks. The experience of his team in engaging nations and healthcare policy makers worldwide in a universal commitment to patient safety is unique.

John Boyce, MD, is Chief of the Section of Infectious Diseases and Hospital Epidemiologist at the Hospital of Saint Raphael in New Haven, CT, and is Clinical Professor of Medicine at the Yale University School of Medicine. He is past president of the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America (SHEA). He was the lead co-author on the 2002 CDC Hand Hygiene Guideline for Healthcare Settings. Since 2004, he has served as a temporary consultant to the World Health Organization, where he is a member of a core group who developed the WHO Guidelines for Hand Hygiene.

Benedetta Allegranzi, MD, is a specialist in infectious diseases and tropical medicine with expertise in infection control and hospital epidemiology. She currently works at the World Health Organization and at the Infection Control Programme at the University of Geneva Hospitals, Geneva, Switzerland. She is the Deputy Lead of the First Global Patient Safety Challenge "Clean Care is Safer Care" of the WHO World Alliance for Patient Safety, and is responsible for implementation of the First Global Patient Safety Challenge in Europe and Africa.

 

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