Article: Hand-washing guidelines allow alcohol-based rubs.

Article: CDC tries to clean up hand-washing guidelines.
Hospital Home Health;  March 1, 2002 ;     700+ words ...CDC tries to clean up hand-washing guidelines Waterless washing under review The most significant change in the hand hygiene guidelines currently under review by the Healthcare ...

Article: Gov't Issues Hand-Washing Guidelines
AP Online;  October 25, 2002 ;     700+ words ...00-00-0000 CHICAGO (AP) _ The government issued guidelines Friday urging doctors and nurses to abandon the ritual of washing their hands with soap and water between patients and instead rub on fast-drying alcohol gels to kill more germs. The goal: reduce the hospital spread of viruses and bacteria

Article: U.S. Issues Hand-Washing Guidelines
AP Online;  October 26, 2002 ;     700+ words ...00-00-0000 [image omitted] CHICAGO (AP) _ The government issued guidelines Friday urging doctors and nurses to abandon the ritual of washing their hands with soap and water between patients and instead rub on fast-drying alcohol gels to kill more germs. The goal: reduce the hospital spread of

Article: Alcohol-based hand gels are not enough to block ...
Family Practice News;  June 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ...Los Angeles -- The use of alcohol-based hand-cleaning gels has burgeoned in hospitals ... 3 years in which the use of alcohol-based hand rubs increased 10-fold. Another study ... following the introduction of alcohol-based hand gels and a hand-washing campaign at ...

Article: Alcohol-based hand gels not enough to block C. ...
Internal Medicine News;  June 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ...LOS ANGELES -- The use of alcohol-based hand-cleaning gels has burgeoned in hospitals ... 3 years in which the use of alcohol-based hand rubs increased 10-fold. Another study ... following the introduction of alcohol-based hand gels and a hand-washing campaign at ...

Article: Intentional Ingestion of Ethanol-Based Hand ...
Mayo Clinic Proceedings;  October 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ...To the Editor. Alcohol-based hand sanitizers containing 60% to 95 ... a case of ingestion of ethanol-based hand sanitizer in a patient with alcoholism ... 500-mL pump bottle of ethanol-based hand sanitizer that was attached to the ...

Article: Department of Homeland Security Includes Alcohol-Based ...
PR Newswire;  May 9, 2006 ;     700+ words ... ... hand hygiene and the use of alcohol-based hand sanitizers made the list of recommendations ... hand washing and the use of alcohol-based hand sanitizers, can control the transmission ... using soap and water, or an alcohol-based hand sanitizer," says Lazaroff. Alcohol ...