Research Guides: *Dental Hygiene: Hand Hygiene

Regulations & Guidelines

Hand Hygiene for Patients in Healthcare Settings
From the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Guidelines for Infection Control in Dental Health-Care Settings - 2003 by Kohn, W. G.; Collins, A. S.; Cleveland, J. L.; Harte, J. A.; Eklund, K. J.; Malvitz, D. M.
Publication Date: 2003

Presents recommendations for preventing and controlling infectious diseases and managing personnel health and safety concerns and infection control in dental care settings.
Recommendations from the Guidelines for Infection Control in Dental Health-Care Settings - 2003
Publication Date: 2016

This document is excerpted from CDC’s Guidelines for Infection Control in Dental Health-Care Settings—2003. MMWR 2003;52(No. RR-17):1–76.
Summary of Infection Prevention Practices in Dental Settings: Basic Expectations for Safe Care by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Publication Date: 2016

Summarizes current infection prevention recommendations published since the 2003 guideline. The information presented here represents infection prevention expectations for safe care in dental settings.
Infection Prevention Checklist for Dental Settings by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Publication Date: 2016

Companion to the Summary of Infection Prevention Practices in Dental Settings: Basic Expectations for Safe Care.
WHO Guidelines on Hand Hygiene in Health Care by World Health Organization Staff
Publication Date: 2009

Provides review of evidence on hand hygiene in health care and specific recommendations to improve practices and reduce transmission of pathogenic microorganisms to patients and HCWs.

Websites

Hand Hygiene
Guides, tools, education, and training from the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology.
Standard Precautions: Hand Hygiene
From the Dental Infection Prevention and Control section at the CDC

Performing Hand Hygiene

Asepsis: Performing Hand Hygiene

DVDs

Hand Hygiene: "It's In Your Hands" by Cromwell Communications
Call Number: RA776 .H26 2003 + Suppl.--Madigan Library Media

Publication Date: 2003

Presents and demonstrates the new hand hygiene standards.
Infection Control, 2e by InService Monthly, Inc.
Call Number: RD91 .I51 2009

Publication Date: 2009

Reviews hand washing and glove usage while caring for residents, and how infections are spread.

Training

CDC Hand Hygiene & Other Standard Precautions to Prevent Healthcare-Associated Infections
This course is intended for healthcare providers and reviews key concepts of hand hygiene and Standard Precautions.