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

Table of 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