Hand hygiene.pdf

2. Hand hygiene as a quality indicator for patient safety .........105
3. Cost–effectiveness of hand hygiene .......................107
3.1 Financial strategies to support national programmes .........110
PART IV. PROMOTING HAND HYGIENE ON A LARGE SCALE ...........111
1. Countrywide issues ...................................111
2. The National Patient Safety Agency “cleanyourhands” campaign 112
3. Benefits of national programmes .........................112
4. Risk management .....................................113
5. Barriers to national programmes .........................114
6. Principles of countrywide hand hygiene improvement ........115
PART V. PROVIDING INFORMATION TO THE PUBLIC ................117
1. The importance of informing the public ....................117
2. Documenting public information campaigns ................117
3. Examples of WHO public information campaigns ............118
4. Examples of national public information campaigns ..........118
5. The public information component of national campaigns
to prevent health care-associated infection .................119
6. Documenting lessons learnt .............................120
REFERENCES .................................................123
TABLES ......................................................155
APPENDICES .................................................191
1. Definitions of health-care settings and other related terms .....193
2.Hand and skin self-assessment tool ........................195
3. Example of a spreadsheet to estimate costs .................197
ABBREVIATIONS ..............................................201
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ........................................205