Evaluating the impact of a hand hygiene campaign on improving adherence

American Journal of Infection Control

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 240-243

  Dierssen Sotos, Trinidad ^a,b   Brugos Llamazares, Verónica ^a   Robles García, Mónica ^c   Rebollo Rodrigo, Henar ^d   Fariñas Álvarez, Concepción ^e   Antolín Juarez, Francisco Manuel ^d   Fernandez Núñez, María Luz ^e   López Marta, de la Cal ^d   Llorca, Javier ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CANTABRIA   (Spain)

^b CIBER EPIDEMIOLOGÍA Y SALUD PÚBLICA CIBERESP   (Spain)

^c Directorate General for Planning   (Spain)

^d HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO MARQUÉS DE VALDECILLA   (Spain)

^e HOSPITAL SIERRALLANA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Compliance; hand hygiene; monitoring; quality of health care

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL EVALUATION; EMERGENCY WARD; HAND HYGIENE; HAND WASHING; HEALTH PROGRAM; HOSPITAL HYGIENE; HUMAN; HYGIENE; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; MEDICAL INFORMATION; MEDICAL STAFF; MONITORING; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PROBABILITY; SPAIN; TRAINING;

ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; CROSS INFECTION; EDUCATION; GUIDELINE ADHERENCE; HANDWASHING; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; INFECTION CONTROL; SPAIN;

EID: 77949916913     PISSN: 01966553     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ajic.2009.08.014     Document Type: Article

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