Introducing alcohol-based hand rub for hand hygiene: The critical need for training

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 50-54

  Widmer, Andreas F ^a   Conzelmann, Martin ^b   Tomic, Milanka ^b   Frei, Reno ^a   Stranden, Anne M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BASEL   (Switzerland)

^b Felix Platter Spital   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; DISINFECTANT AGENT; FLUORESCENT DYE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COUNT; BACTERICIDAL ACTIVITY; COLONY FORMING UNIT; CONTROLLED STUDY; EUROPE; FEMALE; GERIATRIC HOSPITAL; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HOSPITAL HYGIENE; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; TRAINING; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL;

ALCOHOLS; ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS, LOCAL; DISINFECTANTS; HANDWASHING; HOSPITALS, UNIVERSITY; HUMANS; INSERVICE TRAINING; PERSONNEL, HOSPITAL;

EID: 33846859098     PISSN: 0899823X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/510788     Document Type: Article

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