• Standards & Guidelines
• Hand Hygiene Campaigns
• Health Authority Pages
• Educational Resources
  fact sheets, diagrams & signage, interactive tools
• More Information
  links, literature & publications

Links

• Do Bugs Need Drugs?
• Hand Hygiene (BC Centre for Disease Control)
• Hand Hygiene After a Disaster (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
• Handwashing for parents and kids (Canadian Paediatric Society)
• Hand Washing: Reducing the Risk of Common Infections (Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety)
• Improving Hand Hygiene Practice with Six Sigma (Institute for Health Improvement)
• Information about Hand Hygiene (CHICA)
• Pandemic influenza: posters, fact sheets, resources (Toronto Public Health)
• Staying healthy is in your hands (Public Health Agency of Canada)
• The Benefits of Hand Washing (Health Canada)
• Tools and Resources (World Health Organization)

Literature & Publications

Brown TL, Burrell LJ, Edmonds D, Martin R, O’Keeffee J, Johnson P, Grayson ML. “Hand hygiene: a standardised tool for assessing compliance,” Australian Infection Control, 2005 June; 10 (2) [Accessed: 2010, December 23]. Available from: http://www.debug.net.au/HandHygiene%20compliance%20tool.pdf

Improving Adherence to Hand Hygiene Practice: A Multidisciplinary Approach Didier Pittet, University of Geneva Hospital, Geneva Switzerland

Lankford MG, Zembower TR, Trick WE, Hacek DM, Noskin GA, Peterson LR. Influence of role models and hospital design on the hand hygiene of health-care workers. Emerg Infect Dis [serial online] 2003 Feb [Accessed: 2010, December 23]. Available from: http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/EID/vol9no2/02-0249.htm

Measuring Hand Hygiene Adherence: Overcoming the Challenges, The Joint Commission

Measuring the Effectiveness of a Hand Hygiene Campaign on Health Care Workers’ Knowledge, Attitudes, and Intention to Comply with Hand Hygiene Guidelines, Principal Investigator: Dr. Elizabeth Bryce (Funded by WorkSafeBC)