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Hit Handwashing Hygiene Education This Winter

Published on Fri Jan 20, 2012

Use the CDC's oldie but goodie on handwashing hygiene to help keep your staff -- and their patients -- healthier this winter. The Centers for Disease Control & Prevention hand hygiene guideline "came out in 2002 and hasn't changed," says infection control and epidemiology consultant James Marx of Broad Street Solutions in San Diego. But keep an eye out for revisions in the future. "I imagine it will be up for some reviews" in 2012, Marx adds. The guideline is at www.cdc.gov/mmwr/pdf/rr/rr5116.pdf. The CDC's hand hygiene website with links to training tools and other resources is at www.cdc.gov/handhygiene.
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