Health care workers’ compliance to the My 5 Moments for Hand Hygiene: Comparison of 2 interventional methods

American Journal of Infection Control

Volumn 45, Issue 1, 2017, Pages 89-91

  Moghnieh, Rima ^a,b,c   Soboh, Rami ^a   Abdallah, Dania ^a   El Helou, Mona ^a   Al Hassan, Salam ^a   Ajjour, Lina ^a   Tamim, Hani ^d   Al Tabbah, Samaa ^d   Nasreddine, Walid ^a,b   Mugharbil, Anas ^a,b  

^a MAKASSED GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Lebanon)

^b BEIRUT ARAB UNIVERSITY   (Lebanon)

^c LEBANESE UNIVERSITY   (Lebanon)

^d AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF BEIRUT   (Lebanon)

Author keywords

Audit; Compliance; Feedback; Hand hygiene; Interventions; WHO's My 5 Moments for Hand Hygiene

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYGIENE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; NURSING STAFF; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; TERTIARY CARE CENTER; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION; BEHAVIOR THERAPY; HAND WASHING; LEBANON; NURSE; PROCEDURES; PROTOCOL COMPLIANCE; UTILIZATION;

BEHAVIOR THERAPY; GUIDELINE ADHERENCE; HAND HYGIENE; HUMANS; LEBANON; NURSES; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TERTIARY CARE CENTERS;

EID: 84992151601     PISSN: 01966553     EISSN: 15273296     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ajic.2016.08.012     Document Type: Article

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