The first comprehensive, authoritative review of one of the most fundamental and important issues in infection control and patient safety, hand hygiene. Developed and presented by the world's leading scholar-clinicians, Hand Hygiene is an essential resource for all medical professionals.
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
Coverage of basic and highly complex clinical applications of hand hygiene practices
Includes novel and unusual aspects and issues in hand hygiene such as religious and cultural aspects and patient participation
Offers guidance at the individual, institutional, and organizational levels for national and worldwide hygiene promotion campaigns
Contents
Preface
Chapter 1. The burden of healthcare-associated infection
B. Allegranzi, S. BagheriNejad and D. Pittet
Chapter 2. Historical perspectives
Andrew James Stewardson and Didier Pittet
Chapter 3. Flora and physiology of normal skin
Gürkan Kaya and Didier Pittet
Chapter 4. Dynamics of hand transmission
Andrew James Stewardson, Benedetta Allegranzi and Didier Pittet
Chapter 5. Mathematical models of handborne transmission of nosocomial pathogens
Ben S Cooper and Nantasit Luangasanatip
Chapter 6. Methodological Issues In Hand Hygiene Science
Matthew Samore and Stephan Harbarth
Chapter 7. Statistical issues: how to overcome the complexity of data analysis in hand hygiene research?
A. Gayet-Ageron and E. Perencevich
Chapter 8. Hand hygiene agents
Pascal Bonnabry and Andreas Voss
Chapter 9. Methods to evaluate the antimicrobial efficacy of hand hygiene agents
Rotter ML, Sattar SA, Suchomel M
Chapter 10. Hand Hygiene Technique
Marie-Noëlle Chraïti and Andreas Widmer
Chapter 11. Compliance with hand hygiene best practices
B. Allegranzi, A. Stewardson and D. Pittet
Chapter 12. Barriers to Compliance
John M. Boyce, Benedetta Allegranzi and Didier Pittet
Chapter 13. Physicians and Hand Hygiene
B. Allegranzi, A. Stewardson, D. Pittet
Chapter 14. Surgical hand preparation
Andreas F. Widmer and Joseph Solomkin
Chapter 15. Skin Reaction to Hand Hygiene
Elaine Larson
Chapter 16. Alcohol-Based Handrub Safety
John M. Boyce and M. Lindsay Grayson
Chapter 17. Rinse, gel, foam, soap… selecting an agent
Andreas Voss
Chapter 18. Behavior and Hand Hygiene
Mary-Louise McLaws and Hugo Sax
Chapter 19. Hand hygiene promotion strategies
B. Allegranzi and D. Pittet
Chapter 20. My Five Moments for Hand Hygiene
Hugo Sax, Benedetta Allegranzi and Didier Pittet
Chapter 21. System change
B. Allegranzi, A. Voss and D. Pittet
Chapter 22. Education of Healthcare Professionals
Elaine Larson, Marie-Noelle Chraiti and Wing-Hong Seto
Chapter 23. Glove use and hand hygiene
Marie-Noelle Chraiti, Benedetta Allegranzi and Elaine Larson
Chapter 24. Monitoring hand hygiene performance
Hugo Sax and John M. Boyce
Chapter 25. Performance feedback
Andrew James Stewardson and Hugo Sax
Chapter 26. Marketing hand hygiene
Julie Storr and Hugo Sax
Chapter 27. Human Factors Design
Lauren Clack and Hugo Sax
Chapter 28. Institutional safety climate
Enrique Castro-Sánchez, Alison Holmes and Didier Pittet
Chapter 29. Personal Accountability for Hand Hygiene
Robert M. Wachter and Peter Pronovost
Chapter 30. Patient Participation and Empowerment
Yves Longtin, Susan E Sheridan and Maryanne McGuckin
Chapter 31. Religion and Hand Hygiene
Jaffar A. Al-Tawfiq and Ziad A. Memish
Chapter 32. Hand Hygiene Promotion from the US Perspective: Putting WHO and CDC Guidelines into Practice
Katherine Ellingson
Chapter 33. WHO multimodal promotion strategy
B. Allegranzi and D. Pittet
Chapter 34. Monitoring your institution (Hand Hygiene Self-Assessment Framework)
B. Allegranzi, A. Stewardson and D. Pittet
Chapter 35. National hand hygiene campaigns
Claire Kilpatrick and Julie Storr
Chapter 36. Hand hygiene campaigning: from one hospital to the entire country
Philip L. Russo and M. Lindsay Grayson
Chapter 37. Improving Hand Hygiene through Joint Commission Accreditation and the Joint Commission Center for Transforming Healthcare
Mark R. Chassin, Barbara I. Braun and Anne Marie Benedicto
Chapter 38. A Worldwide WHO hand hygiene in healthcare campaign
Claire Kilpatrick, Julie Storr and Benedetta Allegranzi
Chapter 39. The economic impact of improved hand hygiene
Nicholas Graves
Chapter 40. Hand Hygiene: key principles for the manager
A. Holmes, D. Pittet and E. Castro-Sánchez
Chapter 41. Effect of hand hygiene on infection rates
B. Allegranzi, S. Harbarth and D. Pittet
Chapter 42 A. Hand hygiene in specific patient populations and situations: critically ill patients
Caroline Landelle, Jean-Christophe Lucet and Didier Pittet
Chapter 42 B. Hand hygiene in specific patient populations and situations: neonates and pediatrics
Walter Zingg and Hanan Balkhy
Chapter 42 C. Hand Hygiene in Long-term care facilities and home care
Maria Luisa Moro, Marie-Noelle Chraiti and Benedetta Allegranzi
Chapter 42 D. Hand hygiene in ambulatory care
MN. Chraïti, S. Bagheri Nejad and B. Allegranzi
Chapter 42 E. Hand Hygiene in Hemodialysis
Marie-Noelle Chraiti, Sepideh Bagheri Nejad and Benedetta Allegranzi
Chapter 42 F. Hand Hygiene in Specific Patient Populations and Situations: Anesthesiology
Pr Francois Stephan
Chapter 43. Hand Hygiene In Resource-Poor Settings
NizamDamani, Shaheen Mehtar and Benedetta Allegranzi
Chapter 44 A. Role of Hand Hygiene in MRSA Control
Stephan Harbarth
Chapter 44 B. Role of Hand Hygiene in Clostridium difficile Control
John M. Boyce and Walter Zingg
Chapter 44 C. Role of Hand Hygiene in Respiratory Diseases including Influenza
Wing Hong Seto and Benjamin J. Cowling
Chapter 44 D. Handborne Spread Of Noroviruses and its Interruption
Syed A. Sattar and Yves Longtin
Chapter 45. Conducting a literature review on hand hygiene
Daniela Pires, Fernando Bellissimo-Rodrigues and Didier Pittet
Index
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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