Impact of the international Nosocomial infection control consortium (INICC) multidimensional hand hygiene approach over 13 years in 51 cities of 19 limited-resource countries from Latin America, Asia, the Middle East, and Europe

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 415-423

  Rosenthal, Victor D ^a   Pawar, Mandakini ^b   Leblebicioglu, Hakan ^c   Navoa Ng, Josephine Anne ^d   Villamil Gómez, Wilmer ^e   Armas Ruiz, Alberto ^f   Cuéllar, Luis E ^g   Medeiros, Eduardo A ^h   Mitrev, Zan ⁱ   Gikas, Achilleas ^j   Yang, Yun ^k   Ahmed, Altaf ^l   Kanj, Souha S ^m   Dueñas, Lourdes ⁿ   Gurskis, Vaidotas ^o   Mapp, Trudell ^p   Guanche Garcell, Humberto ^q   Fernández Hidalgo, Rosalía ^r   Kübler, Andrzej ^s  

^a International Nosocomial Infection Control Consortium   (Argentina)

^b Pushpanjali Crosslay Hospital   (India)

^c ONDOKUZ MAYIS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Turkey)

^d Institute of Urology   (Philippines)

^e Intensive Care Unit   (Colombia)

^f INSTITUTO MEXICANO DEL SEGURO SOCIAL   (Mexico)

^g INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE ENFERMEDADES NEOPLÁSICAS   (Peru)

^h FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

ⁱ Special Hospital for Surgery Filip Vtori   (Macedonia)

^j UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF HERAKLION   (Greece)

^k Shanxi Dayi Hospital   (China)

^l THE INDUS HOSPITAL   (Pakistan)

^m AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF BEIRUT   (Lebanon)

ⁿ Hospital Nacional de Ninos Benjamin Bloom   (El Salvador)

^o LITHUANIAN UNIVERSITY OF HEALTH SCIENCES   (Lithuania)

^p Clinica Hospital San Fernando   (Panama)

^q Hospital Docente Clínico Quirúrgico Joaquín Albarrán Domínguez Havana   (Cuba)

^r Hospital Clinica Biblica   (Costa Rica)

^s University Hospital of Wroclaw   (Poland)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASIA; COHORT ANALYSIS; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; EUROPE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HAND WASHING; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; INTERVENTION STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE EAST; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PERSONAL HYGIENE; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SOUTH AND CENTRAL AMERICA;

ADULT; ASIA; CHILD; CROSS INFECTION; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; EUROPE; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GUIDELINE ADHERENCE; HAND HYGIENE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFECTION CONTROL; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; LATIN AMERICA; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE EAST; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PERSONNEL, HOSPITAL; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 84874900207     PISSN: 0899823X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/669860     Document Type: Article

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