COVID-19 pandemic: a catalyst for accelerating global action on patient safety

Grant R 1 , Benamouzig D 2 , Catton H 3 , Cheng VC 4 , Dhingra N 5 , Laxminarayan R 6 Show all authors , Legido-Quigley H 7 , Martinez SL 8 , Marikar K 9 , Mendelson M 10 , Parneix P 11 , Perencevich E 12 , Singh H 13 , Tschudin-Sutter S 14 , Ushiro S 15 , Wesangula E 16 , Gardiol C 17 , Dziekan G 17 , Harbarth S 1 , Pittet D 18

Affiliations 

  • 1 Infection Control Programme and World Health Organization Collaborating Centre on Patient Safety, Geneva University Hospitals and Faculty of Medicine, Geneva, Switzerland
  • 2 Sciences Po, Centre de Sociologie des Organisations and Chaire Santé, CNRS, Paris, France
  • 3 International Council of Nurses, Geneva, Switzerland
  • 4 Department of Microbiology, Queen Mary Hospital, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, China
  • 5 Patient Safety Flagship Unit, WHO, Geneva, Switzerland
  • 6 One Health Trust, Washington, DC, USA
  • 7 Imperial College and the George Institute for Global Health, London, UK
  • 8 Hospital Universitario Fundacion Alcorcon, Madrid, Spain
  • 9 Malaysian Society for Quality in Health, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
  • 10 Division of Infectious Diseases & HIV Medicine, Department of Medicine, Groote Schuur Hospital, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa
  • 11 Nouvelle Aquitaine Healthcare-Associated Infection Control Centre, Bordeaux University Hospital, Bordeaux, France
  • 12 Department of Internal Medicine, University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine, Iowa City, IA, USA
  • 13 Center for Innovations in Quality, Effectiveness and Safety, Michael E DeBakey Veterans Affairs Medical Center and Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA
  • 14 Division of Infectious Diseases & Hospital Epidemiology, University Hospital Basel, Basel, Switzerland
  • 15 Division of Patient Safety, Kyushu University Hospital, Fukuoka, Japan
  • 16 East Central and Southern Africa Health Community, Arusha, Tanzania; Patient and Health Workers Safety Division, Ministry of Health, Nairobi, Kenya
  • 17 Federal Office of Public Health, Bern, Switzerland
  • 18 Infection Control Programme and World Health Organization Collaborating Centre on Patient Safety, Geneva University Hospitals and Faculty of Medicine, Geneva, Switzerland. Electronic address: didier.pittet@hcuge.ch
Lancet Infect Dis, 2023 Oct;23(10):1108-1110.
PMID: 37572686 DOI: 10.1016/S1473-3099(23)00485-1

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