To improve and sustain hand hygiene and help save lives by reducing health care-associated infection in your health-care facility, register with WHO SAVE LIVES: Clean Your Hands and be part of this exciting global movement. Register here.
WHO is inviting healthcare facilities around the world to use the WHO Hand Hygiene Self-Assessment Framework and to submit their results online. This is a tool that provides a situation analysis of hand hygiene promotion and practices within an individual health-care facility, according to a set of indicators and a score. Through this survey WHO aims to obtain a picture of hand hygiene progress worldwide and to identify what areas of hand hygiene promotion need further improvement on the global scale. WHO will keep the facility name and data strictly confidential and will only disseminate summary data. Over 14,000 institutions have already signed up!
The use of the Framework and the creation of an action plan based on the obtained results will also be the focus of 5 May 2012, under the call What's YOUR plan?
The Survey online data submission system is available in English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, and Vietnamese. The survey final deadline is 31 December 2011.