Method for automated monitoring of hand hygiene adherence without radio-frequency identification

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

Volumn 31, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 1294-1297

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^c The University of Iowa   (United States)

^d University of Iowa   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; COMPUTER; HAND; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HUMAN; HYGIENE; MONITORING; PATIENT CARE; RADIOFREQUENCY; RADIOFREQUENCY IDENTIFICATION; TECHNOLOGY;

ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS, LOCAL; CROSS INFECTION; ELECTRONICS; FEEDBACK; GUIDELINE ADHERENCE; HANDWASHING; HUMANS; HYGIENE; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; RADIO FREQUENCY IDENTIFICATION DEVICE;

EID: 78649964002     PISSN: 0899823X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/657333     Document Type: Article

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