title: [Hygiene in the surgical department--recommendations by the National Reference Center for Hospital Hygiene].
abstract: Many hygienic procedures performed in operation units are not supported by scientific investigations. The following recommendations by the National Reference Center for Hospital Epidemiology, founded by the German Ministry of Health in 1996, are based on the scientific literature and separate necessary from less necessary and unnecessary procedures.
authors.affiliation: Institut für Umweltmedizin und Krankenhaushygiene, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität, Freiburg.
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Daschner
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Rüden
mesh_terms: D002487:Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, U.S.; D003428:Cross Infection / Q000517:prevention & control*; D004203:Disinfection / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D009873:Operating Rooms; D012307:Risk Factors; D013503:Surgery Department, Hospital; D013530:Surgical Wound Infection / Q000517:prevention & control*; D014481:United States