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International Journal for Quality in Health Care Advance Access originally published online on January 5, 2006
International Journal for Quality in Health Care 2006 18(1):4-8; doi:10.1093/intqhc/mzi093
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International Journal for Quality in Health Care vol. 18 no. 1 © The Author 2006. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of International Society for Quality in Health Care; all rights reserved

Perspectives on Quality

Challenging the world: patient safety and health care-associated infection

Didier Pittet1 and Liam Donaldson2

1 Global Patient Safety Challenge and 2 WHO World Alliance for Patient Safety, Geneva, Switzerland

Improving the safety of patient care is an issue which affects health systems in both developed and developing countries. To co-ordinate and accelerate improvements in patient safety, the World Health Organization (WHO) has supported the creation of the World Alliance for Patient Safety which was launched in October 2004. The six action areas of the Alliance are Patients for Patient Safety, Taxonomy, Research, Solutions for Patient Safety, Reporting and Learning, and a biennial Global Patient Safety Challenge. The first Challenge covering 2005–2006 was launched in October 2005 under the banner ‘Clean Care is Safer Care’. The Challenge addresses health care-associated infection, a major, patient safety problem affecting hundreds of millions of people worldwide.

Keywords: health care-associated infection, patient safety, prevention, research, solutions, taxonomy, World Health Organization

Address reprint requests to Didier Pittet, Infection Control Programme, University of Geneva Hospitals, 24 Rue Micheli-du-Crest, 1211 Geneva 14, Switzerland. E-mail: didier.pittet{at}hcuge.ch

Accepted for publication November 7, 2005.


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