Could hospital patients' hands constitute a missing link?

Journal of Hospital Infection

Volumn 61, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 183-188

  Banfield, Kath R ^a   Kerr, K G ^a  

^a HARROGATE DISTRICT HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cross infection; Hand hygiene; Hand washing; Hospital acquired infection; Patients

Indexed keywords

VANCOMYCIN;

ACINETOBACTER BAUMANNII; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; HAND WASHING; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH SERVICE; HEALTH SURVEY; HOME; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; KLEBSIELLA AEROGENES; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; MICROBIAL CONTAMINATION; NONHUMAN; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PERSONAL HYGIENE; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; REVIEW; RHINOVIRUS; SERRATIA MARCESCENS; STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES; SURVIVAL; UNITED KINGDOM;

BEHAVIOR; CROSS INFECTION; HAND; HANDWASHING; HUMANS; HYGIENE;

EID: 27144469281     PISSN: 01956701     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhin.2005.03.016     Document Type: Review

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