Submit your case study
The World Health Organization (WHO) Patient Safety team would be delighted to learn of the hand hygiene improvements taking place at your health-care facility.
Criteria and process - please read carefully
The primary aim of these case studies is for health-care professionals and managers to share their experiences and lessons learnt from initiating, and implementing hand hygiene promotional activities in single-setting facilities or small groups of facilities. All stories are welcome if they can help others to learn, including case studies involving non-WHO guidelines and tools from other sources. When doing so, please provide sufficient detail for the reader to understand the context and the sources, and how these differ from the WHO Guidelines.
Criteria for acceptance
1. Your case study must link clearly to the WHO hand hygiene implementation strategy.
2. You must provide information for most of the sections on the form and restrict your narrative to 150 words or less per section.
3. Only text submissions will be accepted for these case studies, we are not able to publish web links, pictures or PowerPoint slides.
4. The authors take full responsibility for the content. The First Global Patient Safety Challenge (GPSC1) cannot independently verify the accuracy of the information provided and published.
5. The selection of case studies chosen to be published on the WHO website will be guided by WHO rules, policies and criteria.
Please note that the case studies published on the website may also be used by WHO in newsletters, publications and other material.
Process following submission
Submissions are carefully reviewed by the GPSC1 team within 2 weeks of submission. Not all submitted case studies will necessarily be published online. Following review, case studies are either published on the website, rejected for publication or sent back to the authors for modification. The process from submission to publication can take up to 4-6 weeks.
* Your telephone number and email address will not be displayed on the website, but are requested as the WHO Patient Safety team may contact you for more information to create a case study to be posted in the Case Study Library.