Challenging the world: patient safety and health care-associated infection
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Implication
Global health initiative report outlines systemic strategies to curb health care-associated infections worldwide, highlighting international cooperation through targeted safety challenges.
Key Points
- Describe the establishment of the World Alliance for Patient Safety and outline its dedicated global challenge to reduce health care-associated infections.
- Reviewed the formation of the World Alliance for Patient Safety launched by the World Health Organization in October 2004.
- Identified six fundamental action tracks: Patients for Patient Safety, Taxonomy, Research, Solutions for Patient Safety, Reporting and Learning, and the Global Patient Safety Challenge.
- Inaugurated the 2005–2006 Global Patient Safety Challenge under the theme 'Clean Care is Safer Care'.
- Targeted health care-associated infections as a primary patient safety priority directly affecting hundreds of millions of people globally.
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Pittet et al. (2006) studied this question.