Development of a questionnaire to assess health care students' hand hygiene knowledge, beliefs and practices

Australian Journal of Advanced Nursing

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 9-16

  van de Mortel, Thea ^a  

^a SOUTHERN CROSS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Beliefs; Hand hygiene; Knowledge; Marlowe Crowne; Questionnaire; Student

Indexed keywords

EID: 66849121309     PISSN: 08130531     EISSN: 14474328     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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