A mobile handheld computing application for recording hand hygiene observations

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

Volumn 31, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 975-977

  Hlady, Christopher S ^a   Severson, Monica A ^b   Segre, Alberto M ^a   Polgreen, Philip M ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^b University of Iowa   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER; HAND WASHING; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HYGIENE; INFECTION CONTROL; LETTER; MOBILE PHONE; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

ATTITUDE TO COMPUTERS; COMPUTERS, HANDHELD; DATA COLLECTION; HANDWASHING; HEALTH PERSONNEL; HUMANS; PILOT PROJECTS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TELECOMMUNICATIONS;

EID: 77955722793     PISSN: 0899823X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/655834     Document Type: Letter

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