Storr Julie Ann, Engineer Cyrus, Allan Vivienne
WHO African Partnerships for Patient Safety Project.
World Hosp Health Serv. 2009;45(1):23-5.
On 5 May 2009, the World Health Organization (WHO) will launch a major global initiative to motivate hospitals and healthcare organizations around the world to sign up and show their support for hand hygiene improvement, as a critical patient safety activity that saves lives. Building on the successful impact of the WHO First Global Patient Safety Challenge, which has resulted in 116 WHO member states making a political commitment to tackle healthcare-associated infection, Save Lives: Clean Your Hands aims to transform these country pledges into real action at the point of care. A revised and updated version of the WHO Guidelines on Hand Hygiene in Health Care will be officially launched on 5 May, together with a hand hygiene improvement toolkit. To accompany the toolkit, a new user-friendly self-assessment framework for healthcare facilities is being developed. The Save Lives: Clean Your Hands' vision for 2020 is to encourage an increasing number of national-level programmes or campaigns in hand hygiene in healthcare. The aim is to promote awareness of the importance of hand hygiene and to stimulate interest not only among healthcare professionals but, importantly, among patients as well.
2009年5月5日，世界卫生组织（WHO）将发起一项重大的全球倡议，激励世界各地的医院和医疗保健组织报名并表明他们对改善手部卫生的支持，手部卫生是一项挽救生命的关键患者安全活动。基于世界卫生组织首次全球患者安全挑战所取得的成功影响，已有116个世界卫生组织成员国做出了应对医疗保健相关感染的政治承诺，“拯救生命：清洁双手”旨在将这些国家承诺转化为医疗护理现场的实际行动。《世界卫生组织医疗保健手部卫生指南》修订和更新版将于5月5日正式发布，同时还将推出一个手部卫生改善工具包。为配合该工具包，正在开发一个面向医疗保健机构的全新用户友好型自我评估框架。“拯救生命：清洁双手”到2020年的愿景是鼓励越来越多的国家层面的医疗保健手部卫生计划或活动。其目的是提高对手部卫生重要性的认识，并不仅激发医疗保健专业人员的兴趣，重要的是，也要激发患者的兴趣。
