Guidance
AIDE-MEMOIRE for a national strategy for the safe and appropriate use of injections
The document describes three elements of a strategy for the safe and appropriate use of injections:
■ Behaviour change among patients and health-care workers to decrease injection overuse and achieve injection safety ■ The availability of necessary equipment and supplies, namely a transition to the exclusive use of WHO prequalified AD/ RUP/SIP* syringes for therapeutic injections; ■ The management of sharps waste
Authors
Languages
- English
Publication year
2016
Publisher
WHO
Type
Guidance
Categories
- Programme management
Organisations
- World Health Organization (WHO)
Tags
- Injection safety
