Do patients feel comfortable asking healthcare workers to wash their hands?

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

Volumn 33, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 1283-1284

  Ottum, Andrew ^a   Sethi, Ajay K ^a   Jacobs, Elizabeth A ^a,b   Zerbel, Sara ^c   Gaines, Martha E ^a   Safdar, Nasia ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c University of Wisconsin Health   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; METICILLIN;

ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; CATHETER INFECTION; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMPOWERMENT; HAND WASHING; HEALTH BELIEF; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH PROMOTION; HEALTH SURVEY; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; HYGIENE; INCIDENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; PATIENT EDUCATION; PHYSICIAN; QUESTIONNAIRE; RISK FACTOR; RISK REDUCTION; SURGICAL INFECTION; UNITED STATES; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BEHAVIOR; CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CROSS INFECTION; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; MALE; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; NURSE PATIENT RELATIONSHIP; PATIENT PARTICIPATION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RISK; STANDARD;

CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; CROSS INFECTION; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; HAND DISINFECTION; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; INFECTIOUS DISEASE TRANSMISSION, PROFESSIONAL-TO-PATIENT; MALE; NURSE-PATIENT RELATIONS; ODDS RATIO; PATIENT PARTICIPATION; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; POWER (PSYCHOLOGY); QUESTIONNAIRES; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 84869158731     PISSN: 0899823X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/668419     Document Type: Article

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