European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC), Stockholm, Sweden.
Euro Surveill. 2010 May 6;15(18):19560.
Hand hygiene is the most effective way to stop the spread of microorganisms and to prevent healthcare-associated infections (HAI). The World Health Organization launched the First Global Patient Safety Challenge - Clean Care is Safer Care - in 2005 with the goal to prevent HAI globally. This year, on 5 May, the WHO s initiative SAVE LIVES: Clean Your Hands, which focuses on increasing awareness of and improving compliance with hand hygiene practices, celebrated its second global day. In this article, four Member States of the European Union describe strategies that were implemented as part of their national hand hygiene campaigns and were found to be noteworthy. The strategies were: governmental support, the use of indicators for hand hygiene benchmarking, developing national surveillance systems for auditing alcohol-based hand rub consumption, ensuring seamless coordination of processes between health regions in countries with regionalised healthcare systems, implementing the WHO's My Five Moments for Hand Hygiene, and auditing of hand hygiene compliance.
手卫生是阻止微生物传播和预防医源性感染（HAI）的最有效方法。世界卫生组织（WHO）于 2005 年发起了首个全球患者安全挑战——清洁护理更安全（Clean Care is Safer Care），旨在全球范围内预防 HAI。今年 5 月 5 日，世卫组织的“拯救生命：清洁双手”倡议（SAVE LIVES: Clean Your Hands），重点是提高对手卫生实践的认识和改善其依从性，庆祝了第二个全球日。在本文中，欧盟的四个成员国描述了作为其国家手卫生运动的一部分而实施的策略，并发现这些策略值得注意。这些策略包括：政府支持、使用手卫生基准指标、开发国家监测系统以审计酒精基洗手液的消耗情况、确保在具有区域化医疗体系的国家中，卫生区域之间的流程协调无缝衔接、实施世卫组织的“五个手卫生时刻”，以及审计手卫生依从性。
