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August 15, 2024
Categories: Standards & Guidelines / Basic Sciences / Equipment
September 1, 2021
The study has specified the content of care that should be provided to all critically ill patients. Implementing EECC could be an effective strategy for policy makers to reduce preventable deaths worldwide.
Categories: Standards & Guidelines / Intensive Care Medicine
May 9, 2024
The World Health Organization (WHO) publishes the first global guidelines to prevent the occurrence of bloodstream and other infections caused by use of catheters placed in minor blood vessels during medical procedures.
Categories: Standards & Guidelines / Patient safety
January 1, 2024
The Global patient safety report provides a foundational understanding of the current state of patient safety globally.
Categories: Standards & Guidelines / Patient safety
January 1, 2024
The World Health Organization (WHO) presents the Patient1 Safety Rights Charter, a key resource intended to support the implementation of the Global Patient Safety Action Plan 2021–2030: Towards eliminating avoidable harm in healthcare.
Categories: Standards & Guidelines / Patient safety
January 1, 2021
Overview of the Global Patient Safety Action Plan 2021–2030
Categories: Standards & Guidelines / Patient safety
January 1, 2024
reports from the World Health Organization (WHO) and other organizations have identified the increasing endemic burden of health care-associated infections (HAIs) and antimicrobial-resistant infections, which harm patients every day across health care systems in all countries, regardless of income status....
Categories: Standards & Guidelines / Basic Sciences / Complications of Anaesthesia / Education and Training in Anaesthesia / Global Health
January 1, 1970
Categories: Standards & Guidelines / Pain
March 15, 2024
This report, developed for the Global Conference on Primary Health Care, emphasizes the necessity of incorporating palliative care into primary health care (PHC) for ethical, public health, and economic reasons. It presents a model for integrating palliative care at various...
Categories: Standards & Guidelines / Pain
January 1, 2017
This report presents the recommendations of the WHO Expert Committee responsible for updating the WHO Model Lists of Essential Medicines. It contains a summary of the Committee’s considerations and justifications for additions and changes to the Model Lists, including its...
Categories: Standards & Guidelines / Pain
January 1, 2019
Cancer significantly impacts global health, leading to substantial pain among patients. In response, the World Health Organization (WHO) has developed guidelines to improve cancer pain management for adults and adolescents, addressing the urgent need for effective pain relief in over...
Categories: Standards & Guidelines / Oncology Anaesthesia / Pain
December 22, 2020
In these guidelines, the World Health Organization (WHO) provides evidence-informed recommendations for the management of chronic pain in children. The recommendations are based on the most current, high-quality scientific evidence, and were formulated following processes and using methods that meet...
Categories: Standards & Guidelines / Pain
January 1, 2023
Patient safety is a serious global public health concern. Studies have suggested that there is a 1 in 300 chance of a patient being harmed during health care. Once patients are harmed, Morbidity and Mortality (M & M) meetings are...
Categories: Standards & Guidelines / Global Health / Patient safety
January 1, 1970
Categories: Standards & Guidelines / Patient safety
July 16, 2021
Categories: Standards & Guidelines / Pain / Patient safety
February 1, 2021
Categories: Standards & Guidelines / Visual Aids
February 1, 2017
Categories: Standards & Guidelines / Professional wellbeing
February 1, 2016
Categories: Standards & Guidelines / Obstetrics Anaesthesia / Paediatric Anaesthesia / Visual Aids
January 1, 1970
The WHO Surgical Safety Checklist was developed after extensive consultation aiming to decrease errors and adverse events, and increase teamwork and communication in surgery. The 19-item checklist has gone on to show significant reduction in both morbidity and mortality and...
Categories: Standards & Guidelines / General Topics