The 鈥楳y five moments for hand hygiene鈥?concept for the overcrowded setting in resource-limited healthcare systems

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• 作者：S. Salmon^a ; D. Pittet^b ; H. Sax^c ; M.L. McLaws^a ; ^{m.mclaws@unsw.edu.au" class="auth_mail" title="E-mail the corresponding author}
• 关键词：Alcohol-based hand rub ; Hand hygiene ; Healthcare-associated infections ; Healthcare workers ; My five moments for hand hygiene ; Overcrowding ; Patient zone
• 刊名：Journal of Hospital Infection
• 出版年：2015
• 出版时间：October 2015
• 年：2015
• 卷：91
• 期：2
• 页码：95-99
• 全文大小：265 K

文摘

Hand hygiene is a core activity of patient safety for the prevention of healthcare-associated infections (HCAIs). To standardize hand hygiene practices globally the World Health Organization (WHO) released Guidelines on Hand Hygiene in Health Care and introduced the ‘My five moments for hand hygiene’ concept to define indications for hand hygiene rooted in an evidence-based model for transmission of micro-organisms by healthcare workers' (HCWs) hands. Central to the concept is the division of the healthcare environment into two geographical care zones, the patient zone and the healthcare zone, that requires the HCW to comply with specific hand hygiene moments. In resource-limited, overcrowded healthcare settings inadequate or no spatial separation between beds occurs frequently. These conditions challenge the HCW's ability to visualize and delineate patient zones. The ‘My five moments for hand hygiene’ concept has been adapted for these conditions with the aim of assisting hand hygiene educators, auditors, and HCWs to minimize ambiguity regarding shared patient zones and achieve the ultimate goal set by the WHO Guidelines – the reduction of infectious risks.