Establishing evidence-based criteria for directly observed hand hygiene compliance monitoring programs: A prospective, multicenter cohort study

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

Volumn 35, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 1163-1168

  Yin, Jun ^a   Reisinger, Heather Schacht ^b,c   vander Weg, Mark ^b,d   Schweizer, Marin L ^b,c   Jesson, Andrew ^b   Morgan, Daniel J ^e,f   Forrest, Graeme ^g   Graham, Margaret ^c   Pineles, Lisa ^e   Perencevich, Eli N ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^c VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d University of Iowa   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^f VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^g PORTLAND VA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE; HAND WASHING; HAWTHORNE EFFECT; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; MEDICAL STUDENT; MULTICENTER STUDY; NURSE; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PHYSICIAN; PHYSICIAN ASSISTANT; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PROTOCOL COMPLIANCE; CLINICAL TRIAL; EPIDEMIOLOGY; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; INFECTION CONTROL; OBSERVATION; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PROCEDURES; REPRODUCIBILITY; SAMPLE SIZE; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TIME;

EFFECT MODIFIER, EPIDEMIOLOGIC; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; GUIDELINE ADHERENCE; HAND HYGIENE; HUMANS; INFECTION CONTROL; OBSERVATION; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QUALITY ASSURANCE, HEALTH CARE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SAMPLE SIZE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84905977887     PISSN: 0899823X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/677629     Document Type: Article

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