“Seconds save lives – clean your hands”: the 5 May 2021 World Health Organization SAVE LIVES: Clean Your Hands campaign

To highlight the urgent need to save lives by implementing best practices in health care delivery, the slogan for 5 May 2021, world hand hygiene day, is “Seconds save lives – clean your hands”. The WHO campaign calls to action key stakeholders: health care workers, IPC practitioners, patients and fa...

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Autores principales: Allegranzi, B., Tartari, E., Pittet, D.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Published by Elsevier Ltd on behalf of The Healthcare Infection Society. 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7937329/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33691160
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jhin.2021.03.001
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description To highlight the urgent need to save lives by implementing best practices in health care delivery, the slogan for 5 May 2021, world hand hygiene day, is “Seconds save lives – clean your hands”. The WHO campaign calls to action key stakeholders: health care workers, IPC practitioners, patients and families, facility managers, policy-makers, vaccinators, and the general public who can play critical roles in achieving optimal hand hygiene at the point of care, helping to strengthen society involvement.
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spelling pubmed-79373292021-03-08 “Seconds save lives – clean your hands”: the 5 May 2021 World Health Organization SAVE LIVES: Clean Your Hands campaign Allegranzi, B. Tartari, E. Pittet, D. J Hosp Infect Commentary To highlight the urgent need to save lives by implementing best practices in health care delivery, the slogan for 5 May 2021, world hand hygiene day, is “Seconds save lives – clean your hands”. The WHO campaign calls to action key stakeholders: health care workers, IPC practitioners, patients and families, facility managers, policy-makers, vaccinators, and the general public who can play critical roles in achieving optimal hand hygiene at the point of care, helping to strengthen society involvement. Published by Elsevier Ltd on behalf of The Healthcare Infection Society. 2021-05 2021-03-07 /pmc/articles/PMC7937329/ /pubmed/33691160 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jhin.2021.03.001 Text en © 2021 Published by Elsevier Ltd on behalf of The Healthcare Infection Society. Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active.
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