Improving hand hygiene compliance in the emergency department: Getting to the point

BMC Infectious Diseases

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Scheithauer, Simone ^a   Kamerseder, Vanessa ^a   Petersen, Peter ^a   Brokmann, Jörg C ^a   Lopez Gonzalez, Luis Alberto ^a   Mach, Carsten ^a   Schulze Röbbecke, Roland ^b   Lemmen, Sebastian W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL RWTH AACHEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL DÜSSELDORF   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; EMERGENCY WARD; HAND WASHING; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SURGICAL GLOVE; SURGICAL PATIENT; WORKFLOW; WORKLOAD; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

EID: 84881075257     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712334     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2334-13-367     Document Type: Article

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