Translating an Afro-European partnership into tangible hand hygiene action
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Methods Hospital representatives convened in 2009 to build the programme foundation, followed by hospital situational analyses to determine priority action areas. Among 12 patient safety action areas, reduction of health care-associated infection (HAI) was chosen as a common platform of action. Subsequently, 2-year partnership action plans were developed, finalized at a workshop in 2009 in Uganda. Hand hygiene (HH), the single most effective measure to reduce HAI, was the cornerstone of planned action.
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دوره 5 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2011