Quicker, Easier, and Cheaper? the Promise of automated hand hygiene monitoring

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

Volumn 32, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 1029-1031

  Stewardson, Andrew ^a   Pittet, Didier ^b  

^a GENEVA UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS   (Switzerland)

^b WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISEASE TRANSMISSION; HAND HYGIENE; HAND WASHING; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HOSPITAL HYGIENE; HUMAN; HYGIENE; HYGIENE PRODUCT; INFECTION CONTROL; MONITORING; NOTE; PATIENT SAFETY; PERSONAL HYGIENE;

ANIMALS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; HUMANS; PARKINSON DISEASE;

EID: 80053163131     PISSN: 0899823X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/662023     Document Type: Note

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