Resources related to hand hygiene for health care settings.

To promote stronger engagement, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) developed a guide to help patients, families, and health professionals work together as partners to promote improvements in care.

Be Antibiotics Aware is a national effort to help fight antibiotic resistance and improve antibiotic prescribing and use.

This 10-minute video was developed to highlight key environmental cleaning best practices that should be used in all healthcare settings.

This 7-minute training video is designed for perioperative staff and environmental services staff working in the perioperative area and can help these healthcare team members provide a clean and safe environment for their patients.

This 11-minute video is designed for perioperative staff and environmental services staff working in the perioperative area and can help these healthcare team members provide a clean and safe environment for their patients.

​​IHI collaborated with Dr. Mike Evans, Associate Professor of Family Medicine and Public Health at the University of Toronto, to create a dynamic, animated whiteboard video that introduces the concepts of quality improvement in health care.

To help prevent infections in dialysis patients and increase the use of proven practices that cut infection rates in half, the Making Dialysis Safer for Patients Coalition has created the posters, checklists and fact sheets for use in provider’s offices, dialysis clinics, training sessions, and work areas.

The Comprehensive Unit-based Safety Program (CUSP) is a method that can help clinical teams make care safer by combining improved teamwork, clinical best practices, and the science of safety.

This 14-minute video from Oregon Patient Safety Commission (OPSC) and Oregon Health Authority (OHA) provides basic infection prevention and control training for staff who clean and disinfect the environment and equipment for patients and/or residents who have Clostridium difficile infections.

This toolkit assists hospital staff and leadership in developing an effective antimicrobial stewardship program with the potential to reduce C. difficile.

This 10-minute video from Oregon Patient Safety Commission (OPSC) and the Oregon Healthcare-Associated Infection Program at the Oregon Health Authority (OHA) provides best practices that can be implemented in any healthcare setting to prevent infection during blood glucose monitoring and insulin administration.

A framework to reduce inappropriate antibiotic utilization in hospitals, prepared by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI).

The ESRD Toolkit was created to help end-stage renal disease clinics prevent healthcare-associated infections in dialysis patients.