WHO Guidelines on Hand Hygiene in Health Care First Global Patient Safety Challenge Clean Care is Safer Care WHO GUIDELINES ON HAND HYGIENE IN HEALTH CARE
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Skin reactions related to hand hygiene and selection of hand hygiene products.
BACKGROUND In October 2004, The World Health Organization (WHO) launched the World Alliance for Patient Safety. Within the alliance, the first priority of the Global Patient Safety Challenge is to reduce health care-associated infection. A key action within the challenge is to promote hand hygiene in health care globally as well as at the country level through the campaign "Clean Care is Safer ...
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Dr. Pittet is from the Global Patient Safety Challenge, WHO World Alliance for Patient Safety; and Dr. Donaldson is from the WHO World Alliance for Patient Safety, WHO Headquarters, Geneva, Switzerland. Address reprint requests to Didier Pittet, MD, MS, Director, Infection Control Programme, University of Geneva Hospitals, 24 rue Micheli-du-Crest, 1211 Geneva-14, Switzerland. didier.pittet@hcug...
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تاریخ انتشار 2009