The impact of gown-use requirement on hand hygiene compliance

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 42, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 370-376

  Golan, Yoav ^a,b   Doron, Shira ^a   Griffith, John ^a   El Gamal, Hesham ^a   Tanios, Maged ^a   Blunt, Keri ^a   Barefoot, Laurie ^a   Bloom, Judy ^a   Gamson, Katelyn ^a   Snydman, Laura K ^a   Hansjosten, Karen ^a   Elnekave, Eldad ^a   Nasraway, Stanley A ^a   Snydman, David R ^a  

^a TUFTS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b TUFTS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AWARENESS; BODY FLUID; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSSOVER PROCEDURE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; HAND WASHING; HOSPITAL GOWN; HOSPITAL HYGIENE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFECTION; INFECTION CONTROL; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; MEDICAL PERSONNEL; NON PARTICIPANT OBSERVATION; NORMAL HUMAN; NURSE ATTITUDE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT CARE; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTECTIVE CLOTHING;

GUIDELINE ADHERENCE; HANDWASHING; HUMANS; INFECTION CONTROL; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; ODDS RATIO; PROTECTIVE CLOTHING;

EID: 31044450460     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/498906     Document Type: Article

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