Video surveillance audit of hand-washing practices in a neonatal intensive care unit

Indian Pediatrics

Volumn 52, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 409-411

  Shah, Rutvi ^a   Patel, Dipen V ^a   Shah, Kushal ^a   Phatak, Ajay ^b   Nimbalkar, Somashekhar ^a  

^a PRAMUKHSWAMI MEDICAL COLLEGE   (India)

^b Central Research Services   (India)

Author keywords

Asepsis; Hand washing; Neonatal Intensive care Unit; Surveillance

Indexed keywords

SOAP; WATER;

ARTICLE; ASEPSIS; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CLINICAL HANDOVER; DAY LENGTH; FACE; FEMALE; HAND; HAND WASHING; HUMAN; MALE; MEDICAL AUDIT; NEWBORN; NEWBORN INTENSIVE CARE; NIGHT; PREVALENCE; PROTOCOL COMPLIANCE; VIDEORECORDING; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH SURVEY; PATIENT; STANDARDS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

FEMALE; HAND DISINFECTION; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HEALTH PERSONNEL; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS, NEONATAL; MALE; PUBLIC HEALTH SURVEILLANCE; VIDEO RECORDING; VISITORS TO PATIENTS;

EID: 84930204642     PISSN: 00196061     EISSN: 09747559     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s13312-015-0646-6     Document Type: Article

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