Overcoming patient barriers to discussing physician hand hygiene: Do patients prefer electronic reminders to other methods?

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

Volumn 34, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 929-934

  Michaelsen, Kaarin ^a   Sanders, Jason L ^a   Zimmer, Shanta M ^a,b   Bump, Gregory M ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; HAND WASHING; HEALTH CARE; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATIENT COMFORT; PERCEPTION; PHYSICIAN; REMINDER SYSTEM;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HAND HYGIENE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT PREFERENCE; PATIENTS; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; PHYSICIANS; POWER (PSYCHOLOGY); YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84881189714     PISSN: 0899823X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/671727     Document Type: Article

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