6. Since the introduction of alcohol handrubs at Tan Tock Seng Hospital (TTSH), the hospital has adopted the hand hygiene guidelines issued by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The CDC guidelines do not specifically discuss the technique for using alcohol-based handrubs. However, the recent World Health Organization (WHO)'s Guidelines on Hand Hygiene in Health Care (Advanced Draft) April 2006 have detailed the hand hygiene technique with alcohol-based formulation. WHO's recommended alcohol hand-rubbing technique involves the same standard 7-steps adopted in hand-washing with antiseptic soap and water.