Recommendations for hand hygiene in community settings: a scoping review of current international guidelines.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Hand hygiene is an important measure to prevent disease transmission.

Objective

To summarise current international guideline recommendations for hand hygiene in community settings and to assess to what extent they are consistent and evidence based.

Eligibility criteria

We included international guidelines with one or more recommendations on hand hygiene in community settings-categorised as domestic, public or institutional-published by international organisations, in English or French, between 1 January 1990 and 15 November 2021.

Data sources

To identify relevant guidelines, we searched the WHO Institutional Repository for Information Sharing Database, Google, websites of international organisations, and contacted expert organisations and individuals

SUBMITTER: MacLeod C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10314431 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature