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2. Clinical Safety: Hand Hygiene for Healthcare Workers - CDC

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   Require healthcare personnel to perform hand hygiene based on CDC recommendations. Ensure that healthcare providers perform hand hygiene with soap and water when hands are visibly soiled. Ensure supplies for adhering to hand hygiene are accessible when delivering patient care.

3. About Handwashing | Clean Hands | CDC - Centers for Disease...

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   If soap and water are not readily available, use a hand sanitizer with at least 60% alcohol to clean your hands. Why it's important Washing hands can keep you healthy and prevent the spread of respiratory and diarrheal infections.

4. Hand Hygiene Frequently Asked Questions | Clean Hands | CDC

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   FDA regulates the production and manufacturing of hand sanitizing products and determines which ingredients are allowed to be used in them. The CDC develops recommendations about hand hygiene to prevent the spread of diseases in both community and healthcare settings, based on peer-reviewed data and scientific studies.

5. Hand Hygiene Recommendations | CDC - CDC Stacks

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   Practicing hand hygiene, which includes the use of alcohol-based hand rub (ABHR) or handwashing, is a simple yet effective way to prevent the spread of pathogens and infections in healthcare settings.

6. What You Should Know about Hand Hygiene - CDC Blogs

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   In healthcare, CDC’s guidelines state that hands should be washed for at least 15 seconds, not specifically 15 seconds. Some CDC documents for handwashing outside of healthcare settings say to wash for 20 seconds and recommend singing happy birthday twice, which takes around 20 seconds.

7. Hand Hygiene - CDC Stacks

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   Hand hygiene is the process of cleaning one’s hands to prevent the spread of infectious diseases. Good hand hygiene means washing your hands with soap and water or using alcohol-based rubs (hand sanitizer) to keep them germ free.

8. Hand Hygiene: Back to Basics in Infection Prevention - CDC

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   For more information about hand hygiene, including guidelines, promotional campaigns, and measurement tools and technologies, please visit the following websites: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC): Guideline for Hand Hygiene in Healthcare Settings

9. Effective Handwashing: Learn. Teach. Repeat. | Blogs | CDC

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   May 5 is World Hand Hygiene Day. Of all the practical skills and lessons, learning to protect your health in a public health emergency or a natural disaster by teaching and practicing effective handwashing is the most important.

10. About Hand Hygiene for Patients in Healthcare Settings - CDC

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    About Hand Hygiene for Patients in Healthcare Settings Key points Patients in healthcare settings are at risk of getting infections while receiving treatment for other conditions.

11. Hand Hygiene - The Joint Commission

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    SHEA Compendium: SHEA/IDSA/APIC Practice Recommendation: Strategies to prevent healthcare-associated infections through hand hygiene: 2022 Update (February 2023) CDC: Hand Hygiene in Healthcare Settings; WHO: Guidelines on Hand Hygiene in Health Care