Understanding practice: Factors that influence physician hand hygiene compliance

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

Volumn 35, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 1511-1520

  Squires, Janet E ^a,b   Linklater, Stefanie ^b   Grimshaw, Jeremy M ^b,c   Graham, Ian D ^b   Sullivan, Katrina ^b   Bruce, Natalie ^d   Gartke, Kathleen ^d   Karovitch, Alan ^c   Roth, Virginia ^c,d   Stockton, Karen ^d   Trickett, John ^d   Worthington, Jim ^d   Suh, Kathryn N ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^b OTTAWA HOSPITAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BEHAVIOR CHANGE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CONTENT ANALYSIS; DESCRIPTIVE RESEARCH; HAND WASHING; HEALTH BELIEF; HOSPITAL HYGIENE; HUMAN; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; PROFESSIONAL KNOWLEDGE; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; QUASI EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; SEMI STRUCTURED INTERVIEW; ADULT; ATTENTION; CANADA; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; INFECTION CONTROL; MALE; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEMORY; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PHYSICIAN; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PROCEDURES; PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; STANDARDS; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT;

ADULT; ATTENTION; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; CANADA; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; CULTURE; ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; GUIDELINE ADHERENCE; HAND HYGIENE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; INFECTION CONTROL; INTERNSHIP AND RESIDENCY; MALE; MEMORY; PHYSICIANS; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; QUALITY IMPROVEMENT; SOCIAL IDENTIFICATION;

EID: 84911946287     PISSN: 0899823X     EISSN: 15596834     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/678597     Document Type: Article

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