Safety culture and hand hygiene: Linking attitudes to behavior

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

Volumn 33, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 1280-1282

  Daugherty, Elizabeth Lee ^a   Paine, Lori A ^a,b   Maragakis, Lisa L ^a   Sexton, J Bryan ^c   Rand, Cynthia S ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

^c DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HAND HYGIENE; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HOSPITAL SUBDIVISIONS AND COMPONENTS; HUMAN; HYGIENE; INFECTION CONTROL; INTERVENTION STUDY; MEDICAL PRACTICE; PATIENT SAFETY;

ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTERS; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; CROSS INFECTION; GUIDELINE ADHERENCE; HAND DISINFECTION; HUMANS; MEDICAL STAFF, HOSPITAL; NURSING STAFF, HOSPITAL; OBSERVATION; ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE; PATIENT SAFETY; QUESTIONNAIRES; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 84869169430     PISSN: 0899823X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/668432     Document Type: Article

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