Friday, October 30, 2009
It's a party! Bring your own alcohol (gel).
I learned about a new holiday today at IDSA. The WHO has declared May 5 to be hand-hygiene day. I'd suggest that we all celebrate by washing our hands, but apparently the point is that health care workers should be cleaning their hands all the time--specifically at 5 moments in the patient encounter. (See, 5 moments for the cinco de Mayo.)
This international effort is trying to make hand hygiene "easy, convenient and even sexy," according to Didier Pittet, MD. The project is very country-specific--in some developing countries, they're teaching how to make your own hand gel, while in others the focus is on humorous education to improve compliance. The importance of localizing humor was made clear by a French cartoon of a germ on a couch that Dr. Pittet presented. "Dr. Freud, in this hospital, it's become impossible to cause infections anymore," the germ said. It sure wouldn't win the ACP Internist/Hospitalist cartoon caption contest.
Labels: infectious disease
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