Effectiveness of a hospital-wide programme to improve compliance with hand hygiene

Lancet

Volumn 356, Issue 9238, 2000, Pages 1307-1312

  Pittet, Didier ^a   Hugonnet, Stéphane ^a   Harbarth, Stephan ^a   Mourouga, Philippe ^a   Sauvan, Valérie ^a   Touveneau, Sylvie ^a   Perneger, Thomas V ^a  

^a GENEVA UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; DISINFECTANT AGENT; METICILLIN; SOAP; WATER;

ARTICLE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CROSS INFECTION; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; HAND WASHING; HOSPITAL HYGIENE; HOSPITAL INFECTION; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; NURSE; PHYSICIAN; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0034649075     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(00)02814-2     Document Type: Article

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