WHO Patient Safety

What is Patient Safety?
Main Pillars of Patient Safety
Clean Care is Safer Care
• First Phase
• Second Phase
• Third Phase
5 Moments of Patient Safety
Multimodal Improvement of Hand Hygiene
Hand Hygiene Self Assessment Framework
Future of the Clean Care is Safer Care Program
Safer Surgery Saves Lives
University of Geneva Hospital

The WHO 5 Moments for Hand Hygiene

Research has shown that failure to comply with hand hygiene procedures at critical moments is the most dangerous for patient safety. For healthcare workers to comply with recognized critical moments in hand hygiene the system was simplied by the WHO, which identied the key moments which require hand hygiene. The critical moments identied in the patient room are justied simply by the fact this is where patients are at a very high risk of being contaminated by a healthcare worker's contaminated hands. Those timings inside the patient room are:

Last Updated on Wednesday, 09 November 2011 06:43