It's not all about me: Motivating hand hygiene among health care professionals by focusing on patients

Psychological Science

Volumn 22, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 1494-1499

  Grant, Adam M ^a   Hofmann, David A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

cooperation; health; motivation; social influences

Indexed keywords

EID: 83055181993     PISSN: 09567976     EISSN: 14679280     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0956797611419172     Document Type: Article

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