Observation and measurement of hand hygiene and patient identification improve compliance with patient safety practices

Academic Medicine

Volumn 84, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 1705-1712

  Rosenthal, Tom ^a,b   Erbeznik, Mary ^a   Padilla, Tony ^a   Zaroda, Teresa ^a   Nguyen, Daniel H ^c   Rodriguez, Marcela ^a,c  

^a UCLA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HAND WASHING; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MANAGEMENT; METHODOLOGY; NURSING STAFF; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT; SAFETY; STANDARD; STUDENT; TEACHING HOSPITAL; UNITED STATES; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL; UTILIZATION REVIEW; VOLUNTARY WORKER;

ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTERS; DATA COLLECTION; HANDWASHING; HOSPITALS, TEACHING; HUMANS; LOS ANGELES; NURSING STAFF, HOSPITAL; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; PATIENT IDENTIFICATION SYSTEMS; PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT; QUALITY ASSURANCE, HEALTH CARE; SAFETY MANAGEMENT; STUDENTS; VOLUNTARY WORKERS;

EID: 73449124858     PISSN: 10402446     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/ACM.0b013e3181bf6988     Document Type: Article

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