Creating a manual for proper hand hygiene and its clinical effects

Surgery Today

Volumn 36, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 410-415

  Kusachi, Shinya ^a   Sumiyama, Yoshinobu ^a   Arima, Youichi ^a   Yoshida, Yuichi ^a   Tanaka, Hidenori ^a   Nakamura, Youichi ^a   Nagao, Jiro ^a   Saida, Yosihisa ^a   Watanabe, Manabu ^a   Sato, Junko ^a  

^a TOHO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cross infection; Hand hygiene; Hospital infection; Infected wound; Methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus; Surgical site infection

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COUNT; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; COLONY FORMING UNIT; CROSS INFECTION; HAND WASHING; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; HYGIENE; INFECTION PREVENTION; INFECTION RISK; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; SURGICAL GLOVE; SURGICAL INFECTION; WOUND INFECTION;

ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS, LOCAL; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; CROSS INFECTION; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; FEMALE; GLOVES, PROTECTIVE; HANDWASHING; HUMANS; HYGIENE; MALE; MANUALS; MANUALS AS TOPIC; METHICILLIN RESISTANCE; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; WOUND INFECTION;

EID: 33646459008     PISSN: 09411291     EISSN: 14362813     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00595-005-3177-2     Document Type: Article

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