Infection Control Programme, University of Geneva Hospitals and Faculty of Medicine, Geneva, Switzerland.
J Infect Public Health. 2008;1(1):4-10. doi: 10.1016/j.jiph.2008.08.006. Epub 2008 Oct 27.
The World Alliance for Patient Safety is an evolving programme of the WHO, established to raise the profile of patient safety within the global health care agenda. The decision taken in 2004 to focus the effort and attention of the First Global Patient Safety Challenge on the problem of health care-associated infection (HAI) is testimony to the fact that HAI is a significant patient safety hazard and continues to harm patients in the 21st century. Much of this harm is avoidable through better application of measures which already exist including universal implementation of hand hygiene improvement methods. Action on hand hygiene improvement is therefore at the core of the First Challenge, and field testing of the WHO implementation strategies developed in conjunction with the WHO Guidelines on Hand Hygiene in Health Care (Advanced Draft) is on track to complete by the end of 2008. Following this, a revised and updated guideline and suite of implementation tools will be published by the WHO. It is important to note that the First Global Patient Safety Challenge has mobilized an unprecedented number of countries over a short timeframe to commit to take action on HAI.
世界患者安全联盟是世卫组织正在不断发展的一项规划，旨在提高全球卫生保健议程中患者安全的地位。2004 年作出的决定将全球患者安全挑战的努力和注意力集中在与卫生保健有关的感染（HAI）这一问题上，这证明 HAI 是一个重大的患者安全危害，在 21 世纪仍在继续伤害患者。通过更好地应用包括普遍实施手部卫生改进方法在内的现有措施，大部分此类危害是可以避免的。因此，手部卫生改进行动是第一次挑战的核心，正在按计划在 2008 年底之前完成与世卫组织《卫生保健中手部卫生指南》（高级草案）共同制定的世卫组织执行战略的实地测试。在此之后，世卫组织将发布修订和更新的指南以及一套执行工具。值得注意的是，全球患者安全挑战在短时间内调动了前所未有的大量国家承诺就 HAI 采取行动。
