Three successful interventions in health care workers that improve compliance with hand hygiene: Is sustained replication possible?

American Journal of Infection Control

Volumn 36, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 349-355

  Whitby, Michael ^a   McLaws, Mary Louise ^b   Slater, Karen ^a   Tong, Edward ^a   Johnson, Barbara ^a  

^a PRINCESS ALEXANDRA HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

2 PROPANOL; ALCOHOL; CHLORHEXIDINE; CHLORHEXIDINE GLUCONATE; SOAP;

ARTICLE; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; HAND; HAND WASHING; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYGIENE; INCIDENCE; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; INTERVENTION STUDY; NORMAL HUMAN; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TEACHING HOSPITAL; UNITED STATES;

ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS, LOCAL; DATA COLLECTION; DISEASE TRANSMISSION, PROFESSIONAL-TO-PATIENT; GUIDELINE ADHERENCE; HANDWASHING; HEALTH PERSONNEL; HOSPITAL BED CAPACITY, 500 AND OVER; HOSPITALS, TEACHING; HUMANS; HYGIENE; INFECTION CONTROL; INTERVENTION STUDIES; QUEENSLAND; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 44449108242     PISSN: 01966553     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ajic.2007.07.016     Document Type: Article

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