Electronic monitoring of individual healthcare workers' hand hygiene event rate

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

Volumn 35, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 1189-1192

  Muller, Matthew P ^a   Levchenko, Alexander I ^b   Ing, Stanley ^c   Pong, Steven M ^b   Fernie, Geoff R ^b,d  

^a ST MICHAEL'S HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^b TORONTO REHABILITATION INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRONIC HAND HYGIENE MONITORING SYSTEM; ELECTRONIC MONITORING; ELECTRONICS; HAND WASHING; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTHCARE ASSOCIATED INFECTION; HUMAN; MONITORING; NOTE; NURSE; PROTOCOL COMPLIANCE; ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; CLINICAL TRIAL; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; INFORMATION PROCESSING; NURSING STAFF; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PROCEDURES; PSYCHOLOGY; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT;

DATA COLLECTION; FEEDBACK, PSYCHOLOGICAL; GUIDELINE ADHERENCE; HAND HYGIENE; HUMANS; NURSING STAFF, HOSPITAL; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; QUALITY ASSURANCE, HEALTH CARE; QUALITY IMPROVEMENT;

EID: 84905979532     PISSN: 0899823X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/677631     Document Type: Note

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