Enhanced performance feedback and patient participation to improve hand hygiene compliance of health-care workers in the setting of established multimodal promotion: a single-centre, cluster randomised controlled trial

The Lancet Infectious Diseases

Volumn 16, Issue 12, 2016, Pages 1345-1355

  Stewardson, Andrew James ^a,b   Sax, Hugo ^a,c   Gayet Ageron, Angèle ^a   Touveneau, Sylvie ^a   Longtin, Yves ^a,d,e   Zingg, Walter ^a   Pittet, Didier ^a  

^a GENEVA UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^d MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^e MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR CHANGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; FOLLOW UP; HAND WASHING; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH PROMOTION; HIGH DEPENDENCY UNIT; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PATIENT PARTICIPATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SWITZERLAND; TASK PERFORMANCE; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION; CROSS INFECTION; EDUCATION; HAND DISINFECTION; HOSPITAL; PROTOCOL COMPLIANCE; STANDARDS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

CROSS INFECTION; FEEDBACK; GUIDELINE ADHERENCE; HAND DISINFECTION; HEALTH PERSONNEL; HEALTH PROMOTION; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; PATIENT PARTICIPATION; SWITZERLAND;

EID: 84994493654     PISSN: 14733099     EISSN: 14744457     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1473-3099(16)30256-0     Document Type: Article

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