WHO SAVE LIVES: Clean Your Hands global annual campaign. A call for action: 5 May 2011

Infection

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 93-95

  Kilpatrick, C ^a   Pittet, D ^a,b  

^a WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

^b GENEVA UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AWARENESS; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; EDITORIAL; HAND WASHING; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HEALTH PROMOTION; HOSPITAL HYGIENE; HUMAN; INFECTION PREVENTION; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; NEWBORN INFECTION; NEWBORN MORTALITY; PATIENT SAFETY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; STRATEGIC PLANNING; SURGICAL INFECTION; VENTILATOR ASSOCIATED PNEUMONIA;

CROSS INFECTION; HANDWASHING; HEALTH FACILITIES; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMANS; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

EID: 79955636541     PISSN: 03008126     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s15010-011-0106-8     Document Type: Editorial

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