Predictors of compliance handwashing practice among healthcare professionals

Healthcare Infection

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 79-84

  Al Hussami, Mahmoud ^a   Darawad, Muhammad ^a   Almhairat, Iyad I ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF JORDAN   (Jordan)

^b Al Basheer Hospital   (Jordan)

Author keywords

attitude; compliance; handwashing; skin assessment

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; HAND WASHING; HAND WASHING ASSESSMENT INVENTORY; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH BELIEF; HOSPITAL PERSONNEL; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; JORDAN; LABORATORY PERSONNEL; MALE; NAMED INVENTORIES, QUESTIONNAIRES AND RATING SCALES; NURSE ATTITUDE; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; PREDICTOR VARIABLE; SELF REPORT; SKIN SENSATION; SKIN TURGOR; WORK EXPERIENCE;

EID: 79959812013     PISSN: 18355617     EISSN: 18355625     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/HI11004     Document Type: Article

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