Acerca das infecções hospitalares

A propósito de "STOP às infecções hospitalares. Doze hospitais unidos no combate" recordo:

• "O sentido das prioridades" (Setembro 2011)
• "Uma simples checklist... "Já lavou as mãos?"" (Janeiro de 2008)
• "O efeito checklist" (Janeiro 2013)

"Each year, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control, two million Americans acquire an infection while they are in the hospital. Ninety thousand die of that infection. The hardest part of the infection-control team’s job, Yokoe says, is not coping with the variety of contagions they encounter or the panic that sometimes occurs among patients and staff. Instead, their greatest difficulty is getting clinicians like me to do the one thing that consistently halts the spread of infections: wash our hands.
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Our hospital’s statistics show what studies everywhere else have shown — that we doctors and nurses wash our hands one-third to one-half as often as we are supposed to. Having shaken hands with a sniffling patient, pulled a sticky dressing off someone’s wound, pressed a stethoscope against a sweating chest, most of us do little more than wipe our hands on our white coats and move on — to see the next patient, to scribble a note in the chart, to grab some lunch." (aqui)