Helping to solve healthcare's most critical safety and quality problems.

摘要

PATIENTS expect and deserve safe, high-quality healthcare that is free from preventable harmful events. In the United States, 247 people die every day as a result of a healthcare-associated infection. This is equivalent to a Boeing 767 aircraft crashing daily. Another staggering statistic is that nearly 100 000 people enter a hospital and die from an infection they acquired while receiving treatment of an unrelated condition.Studies have found that hand hygiene-the most basic, low-cost, and low-technology infection prevention and control strategy-is ignored by half of healthcare workers.