Assessment of healthcare professionals' adherence to hand hygiene after alcohol-based hand rub introduction at an intensive care unit in São Paulo, Brazil

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 365-367

  Santana, Solange L ^a,b   Furtado, Guilherme H C ^a   Coutinho, Ana Paula ^a   Medeiros, Eduardo A S ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b NONE   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; DISINFECTANT AGENT;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BACTERIUM CONTAMINATION; BRAZIL; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPOSURE; HAND WASHING; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HEALTH PROGRAM; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMAN; HYGIENE; INFECTION CONTROL; INFECTION PREVENTION; INTENSIVE CARE; INVASIVE PROCEDURE; MEDICAL STUDENT; MICROBIAL GROWTH; NURSE; NURSING ASSISTANT; PHYSICIAN; PHYSIOTHERAPIST; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; RESIDENT;

ALCOHOLS; ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS, LOCAL; BRAZIL; EDUCATION, CONTINUING; GUIDELINE ADHERENCE; HAND; HANDWASHING; HOSPITALS, TEACHING; HUMANS; INFECTION CONTROL; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; PERSONNEL, HOSPITAL; PROGRAM EVALUATION;

EID: 33947577613     PISSN: 0899823X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/510791     Document Type: Article

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