Hand Hygiene
Healthcare-associated infections kill between 8,000 and 12,000 Canadians every year. Proper hand hygiene is a key part of an effective infection control and prevention program.
Manual
Best Practices for Hand Hygiene in All Health Care Settings 
Provincial Infectious Diseases Advisory Committee, December 2010. This manual provides infection prevention and control practices for hand hygiene in all healthcare settings in Ontario. Reproduced with permission from PHO. 
Video
Speak Up: Prevent the Spread of Infection 
The Joint Commission, 2011. Speak Up is the Joint Commission’s award-winning patient safety program, designed to encourage patients to “speak up” about their healthcare. This short, animated video shows how washing hands and getting vaccinated can prevent the spread of infection.
Canada’s Hand Hygiene Challenge
Canadian Patient Safety Institute. Hand hygiene toolkits, fact sheets and training resources.
Canada’s Hand Hygiene e-learning module
Canadian Patient Safety Institute. A web-based, multimedia learning module.
Clean Care is Safer Care
World Health Organization (WHO). A range of WHO tools developed to complement the Five Moments for Hand Hygiene initiative, a user-centred approach to hand hygiene.
IHI Improvement Map: Hand Hygiene
Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI). The IHI Improvement Map is an interactive tool that helps hospital leaders in the United States improve quality outcomes by guiding their improvement efforts.
Patient & Family Hand Hygiene Guide
Canadian Patient Safety Institute. This booklet helps patients and families learn how they can help stop the spread of infections by practising good hand hygiene.
Community and Hospital Infection Control Association — Canada
Public Health Ontario: Infectious Disease Prevention and Control
Public Health Ontario: Just Clean Your Hands
Provincial Infectious Diseases Advisory Committee
Regional Infection Control Networks
