Quantification of anesthesia providers' hand hygiene in a busy metropolitan operating room: What would Semmelweis think?

American Journal of Infection Control

Volumn 40, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 756-759

  Biddle, Chuck ^a   Shah, Jagdip ^a  

^a VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Anesthesia provider; Anesthesia workstation; Hand hygiene; Health care acquired infection

Indexed keywords

ANESTHESIST; ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; HAND WASHING; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; HYGIENE; OPERATING ROOM;

ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTERS; ANESTHESIA; CROSS INFECTION; GUIDELINE ADHERENCE; HAND DISINFECTION; HAND HYGIENE; HEALTH PERSONNEL; HUMANS; INFECTION CONTROL; NURSE ANESTHETISTS; OPERATING ROOMS; PERIOPERATIVE CARE; PHYSICIAN ASSISTANTS; VIRGINIA; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

EID: 84867049775     PISSN: 01966553     EISSN: 15273296     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ajic.2011.10.008     Document Type: Article

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