Attitudes and perceptions toward hand hygiene among healthcare workers caring for critically ill neonates

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 305-311

  Pessoa Silva, Carmem Lucia ^a,b   Posfay Barbe, Klara ^a   Pfister, Riccardo ^a   Touveneau, Sylvie ^a   Perneger, Thomas V ^a,c   Pittet, Didier ^a  

^a GENEVA UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS   (Switzerland)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; CRITICAL ILLNESS; HAND WASHING; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HOSPITAL HYGIENE; HUMAN; INFECTION PREVENTION; INFECTIOUS COMPLICATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PERCEPTION; PERSONAL HYGIENE;

ADULT; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; CRITICAL CARE; HANDWASHING; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH PERSONNEL; HUMANS; HYGIENE; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS, NEONATAL; LOGISTIC MODELS; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 15944384983     PISSN: 0899823X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/502544     Document Type: Article

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