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| Welcome to the Hand Hygiene Resource Center. The HHRC's mission is to advance the quality of patient care and reduce infection by improving hand hygiene practices in healthcare settings. |
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| Two million people each year become ill as a result of a hospital-acquired infection. Proper hand hygiene is critical to the prevention of these infections - which contribute to the death of nearly 90,000 hospital patients per year and $4.5 billion in medical expenses. | ||
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Click here to find out more about HAND
HYGIENE and what you can do to educate others about simple steps to
prevent these needless infections. Click here for Hand Hygiene Guidelines from the World Health Organization. New Hand Hygiene Video from University of Geneva Learn more - click here. |
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