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Have you ever been admitted to the hospital for surgery or illness? Have you ever caught an infection unrelated to your surgery or illness? If so, you have been the victim of a nosocomial infection also known as hospital-acquired infections.
C. difficile, MRSA (methicillin resistant staphylococcus aureus), are well known, but there are many others.
Do you know that you have more chances to die from a nosocomial infection than from a car accident?
Every year in Quebec, 90 000 people are afflicted by these infections and, of that number, 4000 die immediately.
A minimum of 50% of these infections could be avoided by better prevention and control measures such as strict hand hygiene.
Nosocomial infections are also very costly to the health system. On average they cost 180 millions dollars yearly.
By joining ADVIN you contribute to the promotion of safe care and quality hospitals.
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GLOBAL PATIENT SAFETY CHALLENGE |
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Written by Christine Besson
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Friday, 14 October 2005 |
« Clean Care is Safer Care » is the moto of the campaign launched today, October 13, 2005, by the World Health Organisation (WHO). This program renews basic principles such as clean hands and strict hygiene measures. It also invites the medical world to switch to improved patients safety approach
“Healthcare-associated infection is a crucial problem, especially in the light of emergence of life-threatening infections such as SARS –severe respiratory syndrome- and the risk of a new influenza pandemic" (Samlee Pliabanchang, regional director of WHO Regionnal Office for Southeast Asia)
WHO Press release
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