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1 Guidelines on Core Components of Infection Prevention and control Programmes at the National and Acute health Care Facility LevelGuidelines on core Components of Infection Prevention and control programmes at the national and acute health care facility 978-92-4-154992-9 world health organization 2016 Some rights reserved. This work is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike IGO licence (CC BY-NC-SA IGO; ). Under the terms of this licence, you may copy, redistribute and adapt the work for non-commercial purposes, provided the work is appropriately cited, as indicated below.

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6 In no event shall WHO be liable for damages arising from its use. Printed by the WHO Document Production Services, Geneva, Switzerland 3 Guidelines on Core Components of Infection Prevention and control Programmes at the National and Acute health Care Facility LevelAcknowledgements 4 Acronyms 6 Glossary of terms 7 Declarations of interest 8 Executive summary 9 1 Background 182 Scope and objectives 193 Guiding principles 204 Methods 215 Important issues in Infection Prevention

7 And control 266 The burden of health care-associated Infection 277 An overview of available relevant Guidelines 298 Core Components : Guideline recommendations 30 Core component 1: Infection Prevention and control programmes 301a health care facility level 301b National level 34 Core component 2: National and facility level Infection Prevention and control Guidelines 37 Core component 3: Infection Prevention and control education and training 403a health care facility level 403b National level 43 Core component 4: health care-associated Infection surveillance 444a health care facility level 444b National level 48 Core component 5: Multimodal strategies for implementing Infection Prevention and control activities 535a health care facility level 535b National level 57 Core component 6: Monitoring and evaluation and feedback 616a health care facility level 616b National level 64 Core component 7.

8 Workload, staffing and bed occupancy at the facility level 67 Core component 8: Built environment, materials and equipment for Infection Prevention and control at the facility level 698a General principles 698b. Materials, equipment and ergonomics for appropriate hand hygiene 739 Planned dissemination and implementation of the Guidelines 75 References 77 Annexes 88I.

9 Guidelines Development Group 88II. WHO Steering Group 89 III. Systematic Reviews Expert Group 89IV. External Peer Review Group 89V. A Holmes declaration of interests 90 Web Appendices Appendix I: Core elements of effective Infection Prevention and control programmes in acute health care facilities: a systematic review (update of the SIGHT review)Appendix II: Core Components for Infection Prevention and control Programmes at the National Level: Systematic Literature reviewAppendix III: Summary of an inventory of available guidance from countries and WHO regional officesContents4 Guidelines on Core Components of Infection Prevention and control Programmes at the National and Acute health Care Facility LevelThe Department of Service Delivery and Safety of the world health organization (WHO)

10 Gratefully acknowledges the contributions that many individuals and organizations have made to the development of these coordination and writing of the guidelinesBenedetta Allegranzi and Julie Storr (Department of Service Delivery and Safety, WHO) coordinated and led the development and writing of the Guidelines and contributed to the systematic reviews. Anthony Twyman (Department of Service Delivery and Safety, WHO) provided significant input for the development and drafting of the Guidelines , including contributing to the systematic reviews.