Guideline for hand hygiene in health-care settings: Recommendations of the healthcare infection control practices advisory committee and the HICPAC/SHEA/APIC/IDSA hand hygiene task force

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

Volumn 23, Issue S12, 2002, Pages S3-S40

  Boyce, John M ^a   Pittet, Didier ^b  

^a HOSPITAL OF SAINT RAPHAEL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL DERIVATIVE; CHLORHEXIDINE; HEXACHLOROPHENE; IODINE; IODOPHOR; QUATERNARY AMMONIUM DERIVATIVE; SOAP; TOPICAL ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; TRICLOSAN; XYLENE;

ARTICLE; CONTACT DERMATITIS; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; FUNCTIONS OF THE SKIN AND ITS APPENDAGES; HAND; HAND WASHING; HUMAN; HYGIENE; INFECTION; INFECTION CONTROL; MICROBIOLOGY; SKIN; STANDARD;

ALCOHOLS; ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS, LOCAL; CHLORHEXIDINE; DERMATITIS, CONTACT; HAND; HANDWASHING; HEXACHLOROPHENE; HUMANS; HYGIENE; INFECTION; INFECTION CONTROL; IODINE; IODOPHORS; QUATERNARY AMMONIUM COMPOUNDS; SKIN; SKIN PHYSIOLOGY; SOAPS; TRICLOSAN; XYLENES;

EID: 17144447540     PISSN: 0899823X     EISSN: 15596834     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/503164     Document Type: Article

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