Rituals and behaviours in the operating theatre - joint guidelines of the Healthcare Infection Society and the European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases

Affiliations

• ¹ Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland University of Medicine and Health Sciences, Dublin, Ireland; Healthcare Infection Society, London, UK; ESCMID Study Group for Nosocomial Infection, Basel, Switzerland. Electronic address: hhumphreys@rcsi.ie.
• ² Healthcare Infection Society, London, UK.
• ³ Healthcare Infection Society, London, UK; University College London Hospitals, London, UK.
• ⁴ ESCMID Study Group for Nosocomial Infection, Basel, Switzerland; Department of Medical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, Erasmus MC University Medical Centre, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
• ⁵ Association for Perioperative Practice, Harrogate, UK; Royal College of Nursing, London, UK.
• ⁶ Infection Prevention Society, Seafield, UK.
• ⁷ Healthcare Infection Society, London, UK; NHS Grampian, Greater Aberdeen, UK.
• ⁸ Lay Member for Healthcare Infection Society, London, UK.
• ⁹ Healthcare Infection Society, London, UK; Royal College of General Practitioners, London, UK.
• ¹⁰ University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK.