Impact of sink location on hand hygiene compliance after care of patients with Clostridium difficile infection: A cross-sectional study

BMC Infectious Diseases

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2016, Pages

  Deyneko, Alexander ^a   Cordeiro, Fernanda ^a   Berlin, Laurie ^a   Ben David, Debby ^a,b   Perna, Silvana ^a   Longtin, Yves ^a,c  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b SHEBA MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^c MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Additional precautions; Clostridium difficile; Epidemiology; Hand hygiene; Handwashing; Sinks

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFTERCARE; ARTICLE; CANADA; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE INFECTION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HAND WASHING; HOSPITAL BED CAPACITY; HOSPITAL DESIGN; HUMAN; MEDICAL STUDENT; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; NORMAL HUMAN; NURSING STAFF; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PROTECTIVE GLOVE; PROTOCOL COMPLIANCE; RESIDENT; TERTIARY CARE CENTER; UNIVARIATE ANALYSIS; CLOSTRIDIUM INFECTION; CROSS INFECTION; HAND DISINFECTION; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HOSPITAL; INFECTION CONTROL; PATHOGENICITY; PEPTOCLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; PROCEDURES; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TRANSMISSION;

AFTERCARE; CANADA; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; CLOSTRIDIUM INFECTIONS; CROSS INFECTION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; GLOVES, PROTECTIVE; GUIDELINE ADHERENCE; HAND DISINFECTION; HAND HYGIENE; HEALTH PERSONNEL; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; INFECTION CONTROL;

EID: 85008388783     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712334     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/S12879-016-1535-X     Document Type: Article

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