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Ottawa Heart Institute makes every effort to reduce hospital-acquired infections, considering them to be a major hospital problem and a cause of concern for patients.The publication of their results - particularly rates of infection per bacteria and rate of hand-hygiene compliance are good indicators for the staff and the patients as well. Read their publication...

United-States: Hospital week, May 9-15. With this project, Dr Will Sawyer, known as Henry the hand,  aims at initiating a «culture of safety around increased awareness to improve patient safety». «I am hoping to make all hospitals patient safe.» If all health care staff were aware of the number of hospital-acquired infections on their floor, they would certainly improve their compliance to hand hygiene. «Hand hygiene, a simple action that saves lives!» WHO (World Health Organisation).

For the 3rd year in a row, the World Health Organisation (WHO) is launching its hand hygiene campaign on May 5, declared as «hand hygiene day».
The goal of «Clean Care is Safer Care» is to ensure that infection control is acknowledged universally as a solid and essential basis towards patient safety and supports the reduction of health care-associated infections and their consequences.

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A multidisciplinary team from the University of Sherbrooke has discovered a new class of antibiotics effective against multi-resistant bacteria responsible for hospital-acquired infections: the antibiotics-based ligand PC1. These results open new ways to fight bacteria increasingly resistant to conventional treatment such as C.difficile and MRSA, a real plague in all hospitals.

http://www.usherbrooke.ca/medias/communiques/communiques-details/c/12082/