Four Moments for Patient Hand Hygiene: A Patient-Centered, Provider-Facilitated Model to Improve Patient Hand Hygiene

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

Volumn 36, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 986-989

  Sunkesula, Venkata Ck ^a   Knighton, Shanina ^b,c   Zabarsky, Trina F ^c   Kundrapu, Sirisha ^a   Higgins, Patricia A ^b,c   Donskey, Curtis J ^a,d  

^a CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b LOUIS STOKES CLEVELAND VA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d Medical Center   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CASE REPORT; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; HYGIENE; MODEL; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; HAND WASHING; HOSPITAL FOOD SERVICE; HOSPITAL PERSONNEL; NURSING STAFF; OBSERVATION; PATIENT; PATIENT EDUCATION; PATIENT TRANSPORT; PILOT STUDY; PROCEDURES; PUBLICATION;

FOOD SERVICE, HOSPITAL; HAND HYGIENE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; NURSING STAFF, HOSPITAL; OBSERVATION; PATIENT EDUCATION AS TOPIC; PATIENTS; PERSONNEL, HOSPITAL; PILOT PROJECTS; POSTERS AS TOPIC; TRANSPORTATION OF PATIENTS;

EID: 84988884626     PISSN: 0899823X     EISSN: 15596834     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/ice.2015.78     Document Type: Article

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