Documentos de apoyo:

Review of scientific data related to hand hygiene. Chapter 23: Practical issues and potential barriers to optimal hand hygiene practices: Glove policies. WHO Guidelines on Hand Hygiene in Health Care. (Accedido 15 feb. 2010). Geneve: World Health Organization; 2009.

Disponible en: docs/9789241597906_eng.pdf (pág.128)

Review of scientific data related to hand hygiene. Chapter 11: Review of preparations used for hand hygiene. WHO Guidelines on Hand Hygiene in Health Care. (Accedido 15 feb. 2010). Geneve: World Health Organization; 2009.

Disponible en: docs/9789241597906_eng.pdf (pág.30)

Boyce JM, Pittet D. Guideline for Hand Hygiene in Health-Care Settings. Recommendations of the Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee and the HICPAC/SHEA7APIC7IDSA Hand Hygiene Task Force. MMWR 2002;51(RR-16):1-48. (Accedido 5 marzo 2010). Atlanta: CDC; 2010.

Disponible en: http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/PDF/rr/rr5116.pdf

Sax H, Allegranzi B, Uçkay I, Larson E, Boyce J, Pittet D. ‘My five moments for hand hygiene’: a user-centred design approach to understand, train, monitor and report hand hygiene. J Hosp Infect 2007;67:9-21

Kampf G, Ostermeyer C. Efficacy of two distinct ethanol-based hand rubs for surgical hand disinfection – a controlled trial according to prEN 12791. BMC Infect Dis 2005;5: 17

Olsen RJ, Lynch P, Coyle MB, Cummings J, Bokete T, Stamm WE. Examination gloves as barriers to hand contamination in clinical practice. JAMA 1993;270:350-353

Tenorio AR, Badri SM, Sahgal NB et al. Effectiveness of gloves in the prevention of hand carriage of vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus species by health care workers after patient care. Clin Infect Dis 2001;32:826-29