1. •• Global Guidelines for the Prevention of Surgical Site Infection. World Health Organization. Geneva: World Health Organization; 2016.
http://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/10665/250680/1/9789241549882-eng.pdf?ua=1
. Accessed 5 Oct 2017. This document provides the recommendations for the prevention of SSI to be applied or considered in the pre-, intra- and postoperative periods and give practical ways to implement the recommendations and guidelines.
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. This document was published under WHO Patient Safety programme and as an effort to integrate other WHO programmes to reduce HCAI. The document details about burden of HAIs in developed as well as LMIC and highlights the impact of HAIs worldwide.
4. •• Hospital infection prevention control guidelines. New Delhi, India: National Center for Disease Control. 2016.
http://www.nicd.nic.in/writereaddata/mainlinkfile/File571.pdf
. Accessed 5 Oct 2017. This document can be used as template for infection prevention and control manual by different set of health care units in LMIC and can provides practical base document to initiate IPC program in hospitals.
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