Resources
On this page you will find a list of downloadable resources that have been mentioned in this course. Click each link to download a PDF:
Core Components and Multimodal Strategies
Implementation Strategies & Quality Improvement
Hand Hygiene
Environmental Cleaning
Needlestick Injury Management
Surgical Site Infections
- Specific Sites of an Organ/Space SSI
- Protocol for Surgical Site Infection Surveillance
- Surveillance Periods for SSI
- Key facts on Decolonization of Nasal Carriers of Staphylococcus aureus
- Global Action Plan on Antimicrobial Resistance
- Key Facts on Patient Bathing and Hair Removal
- Key Facts on Surgical Site Skin Preparation
- Interoperative Recommendations
- Postoperative Recommendations
- Preoperative Recommendations
- Conditional Recommendations
- Decontamination and Reprocessing of Medical Devices for Health-care Facilities
- How to Handrub
- Compliance Improvement For All Preventative Measures
- Global Guidelines for the Prevention of Surgical Site Infection
- SAP Timing Considerations
- 5 Moments for Hand Hygiene
- Perioperative Staff Safety Assessment
- Learn From Defects Tool – Perioperative Setting
- Survey on Patient Safety
- The CUSP Method
- Surgical site infections tools and resources
- Stop Infections After Surgery
Catheter-associated Urinary Tract Infections
Decontamination
- Decontamination and reprocessing of medical devices for health care facilitiesGeneva: World Health Organization.
- Guideline for disinfection and sterilization in healthcare facilities. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
- Management and decontamination of surgical instruments (medical devices) used in acute care. London Department of Health.
Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR)
- Implementation Manual to Prevent and Control the Spread of Carbapenem-resistant Organisms at the National and Health Care Facility Level
- WHO Global Action Plan on Antimicrobial Resistance
- WHO Antimicrobial Resistance Surveillance System (GLASS)
- WHO Antimicrobial Resistance Global Report on Surveillance
- WHO Core Components for IPC: implementation tools and resources
- WHO Focus on AMR: Tools and resources
- WHO Hand Hygiene Tools and Resources
- WHO Infection Prevention and Control Assessment Framework
- WHO Guidelines for the prevention and control of carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae, Acinetobacter baumannii and Pseudomonas aeruginosa in health care facilities
- WHO World Antibiotic Awareness Week
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: Antibiotic Resistance
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: Environmental Checklist for Monitoring Terminal Cleaning
- Evidence of hand hygiene to reduce transmission and infections by multi-drug resistant organisms in health-care settings
- ECDC Point Prevalence Study 2011–2012
- Antimicrobial Resistance: Tackling a Crisis for the Health and Wealth of Nations. 2014
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: Carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae
- Best Practices for Environmental Cleaning in Healthcare Facilities: in Resource-Limited Settings
Prevention of Bloodstream Infections
- CDC National Healthcare Safety Network
- CDC Guidelines for Prevention of Intravascular Catheter-Related Infections
- My 5 Moments for Hand Hygiene: Focus on caring for a patient with a central venous catheter
- My 5 Moments for Hand Hygiene: Focus on caring for a patient with a peripheral venous catheter
- Moment 2 poster
- Moment 3 poster
- Pan American Health Organization Epidemiological Surveillance of Healthcare-Associated Infections
- Report on the Burden of Endemic Health Care-Associated Infection Worldwide