Compliance with hand hygiene: reference data from the national hand hygiene campaign in Germany

Journal of Hospital Infection

Volumn 92, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 328-331

  Wetzker, W ^a   Bunte Schonberger K ^a   Walter, J ^a   Pilarski, G ^a   Gastmeier, P ^a   Reichardt, Ch ^a  

^a CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Benchmarking; Compliance; Hand hygiene; National campaign; Observational study

Indexed keywords

ADULT; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYGIENE; INFORMATION PROCESSING; NEWBORN; NEWBORN INTENSIVE CARE; NURSE; PHYSICIAN; CROSS INFECTION; GERMANY; HAND WASHING; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HOSPITAL; PROCEDURES; PROTOCOL COMPLIANCE;

CROSS INFECTION; GERMANY; GUIDELINE ADHERENCE; HAND HYGIENE; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HOSPITALS; HUMANS;

EID: 84960399177     PISSN: 01956701     EISSN: 15322939     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhin.2016.01.022     Document Type: Article

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