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ON May 23rd, 2008, the French Ministry of Health launched a national hand cleanliness campaign targeting health care workers, patients, and the general public. The campaign emphasizes that proper hand hygiene is the key element in preventing and controlling nosocomial infections.
It is critical that a through cleansing of one’s hands with a liquid alcohol solution containing an emollient to protect the skin precedes all health care treatments, no matter where they are carried out. All health care establishments throughout the country should see to it that these solutions are available at patient’s bed. Health care workers would also be required to carry a small bottle of disinfectant in the pockets of their uniform. |
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Written by Christine Besson
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Tuesday, 10 January 2006 |
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•An extensive study by HealthGrades, a leading health-care quality rating organization, reports that 194,000 people died in each of the years 2000, 2001 and 2002 from preventable medical errors in American hospitals.
•The Center for Disease Control and Prevention reports that 90,000 deaths per year results from hospital-acquired infections. This adds more than $5 billion to the nation's health-care costs, according to the CDC.
If the CDC listed hospital-acquired infections in their statistics on leading causes of death in America, it would be ahead of diabetes, pneumonia and Alzheimer's disease.
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