"Clean Care for All-It's in Your Hands": The 5 May 2019 World Health Organization SAVE LIVES: Clean Your Hands Campaign

Clin Infect Dis. 2019 Nov 13;69(11):2026-2028. doi: 10.1093/cid/ciz236.

Authors

Alexandra Peters¹, Tcheun Borzykowski¹, Ermira Tartari¹, Claire Kilpatrick², Safiah Hwai Chuen Mai², Benedetta Allegranzi², Didier Pittet¹

Affiliations

¹ Infection Control Programme and World Health Organization Collaborating Centre on Patient Safety, University of Geneva Hospitals and Faculty of Medicine, Geneva, Switzerland.
² Infection Prevention and Control Global Unit, Department of Service Delivery and Safety, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland.

PMID: 31055596
DOI: 10.1093/cid/ciz236

No abstract available

Keywords: antimicrobial resistance; hand hygiene; infection control; infection prevention and control; universal health coverage.

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Cross Infection / prevention & control
Hand Disinfection
Hand Hygiene / methods*
Humans
Infection Control / methods*
World Health Organization*