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Table 1 The 5 May 2018 World Health Organization SAVE LIVES: Clean Your Hands campaign call to action

From: Promoting and sustaining a historical and global effort to prevent sepsis: the 2018 World Health Organization SAVE LIVES: Clean Your Hands campaign

Health workers

“Take 5 Moments* to clean your hands to prevent sepsis in health care”

IPC leaders

“Be a champion in promoting hand hygiene to prevent sepsis in health care”

Health facility leaders

“Prevent sepsis in health care, make hand hygiene a quality indicator in your hospital”

Ministries of health

“Implement the 2017 WHA sepsis resolution. Make hand hygiene a national marker of health care quality”

Patient advocacy groups

“Ask for 5 Moments* of clean hands to prevent sepsis in health care”

  1. *Refers to the “My 5 Moments for Hand Hygiene” as published in the “WHO Guidelines on Hand Hygiene in Health Care” [10]
  2. IPC Infection prevention and control, WHA World Health Assembly