Hand profiling: A novel tool used to demonstrate hand hygiene technique

Healthcare Infection

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 153-157

  Gillespie, Elizabeth ^a   Kotsanas, Despina ^b   Wilson, Jill ^a   Buist, Michael ^c   Stuart, Rhonda ^a  

^a Southern Health   (Australia)

^b MONASH MEDICAL CENTRE   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL;

AEROBIC BACTERIUM; BACTERIUM CULTURE; FOLLOW UP; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; HAND HYGIENE; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; MEDICAL STAFF; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; REVIEW; VANCOMYCIN RESISTANT ENTEROCOCCUS;

EID: 77953427333     PISSN: 18355617     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/HI09022     Document Type: Article

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