Inventory of patient stories
On this page you can see web sites featuring videos and stories of patients affected by health care-associated infection and/or involved in hand hygiene promotion. These can be very powerful for health-care workers’ training and patients’ awareness raising and empowerment. If you know of any good videos of patient stories on health care-associated infection and patient participation in hand hygiene, please send us the link by sending an email to savelives@who.int.
Patients affected by health care-associated infection
- Patient affected by post-operative necrotizing fasciitis by MRSA
- Ginny's story about hospital-acquired osteomyelitis by staphylococcus
- Patient affected by post-operative MRSA infection
- Glen’s story about MRSA bacteraemia
- Gabby’s story about MRSA neonatal infection
Patient involvement in hand hygiene
- Several videos involving patients are available on this APIC web page
- Hand hygiene from the patient's perspective
- Hand transmission seen from the patient's perspective
- CDC video of a doctor explaining to patients the risk of health care-associated infection and the importance of patient involvement in hand hygiene
- Wash your Hands - it just makes sense