Monitoring hand hygiene: Meaningless, harmful, or helpful?

American Journal of Infection Control

Volumn 41, Issue 5 SUPPL., 2013, Pages

  Larson, Elaine ^a  

^a Department of Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

Handwashing; Observation; Quality assessment

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL;

ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CAMERAS AND FILMS; ELECTRONIC SENSOR; HAND WASHING; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH EDUCATION; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; INFECTION PREVENTION; INFECTION RISK; MEDICAL AUDIT; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; RADIOFREQUENCY; SOCIAL MARKETING; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; CROSS INFECTION; GUIDELINE ADHERENCE; HAND DISINFECTION; HAND HYGIENE; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; INFECTION CONTROL; MONITORING, PHYSIOLOGIC; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; QUALITY CONTROL;

EID: 84876899571     PISSN: 01966553     EISSN: 15273296     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ajic.2012.09.029     Document Type: Article

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