Patient Safety Culture and the Ability to Improve: A Proof of Concept Study on Hand Hygiene

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

Volumn 38, Issue 11, 2017, Pages 1277-1283

  Caris, Martine G ^a   Kamphuis, Pim G A ^a   Dekker, Mireille ^a   De Bruijne, Martine C ^a   Van Agtmael, Michiel A ^a   Vandenbroucke Grauls, Christina M J E ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; DOCTOR NURSE RELATION; EXERCISE; HOSPITAL MANAGEMENT; HUMAN; HYGIENE; INTERVIEW; NETHERLANDS; PATIENT SAFETY; TEAM BUILDING; TERTIARY CARE CENTER; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HAND WASHING; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE; PROCEDURES; PROOF OF CONCEPT; STANDARDS; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT;

ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTERS; CONTROLLED BEFORE-AFTER STUDIES; HAND HYGIENE; HUMANS; ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE; PATIENT SAFETY; PROOF OF CONCEPT STUDY; QUALITY IMPROVEMENT; TERTIARY CARE CENTERS;

EID: 85030850946     PISSN: 0899823X     EISSN: 15596834     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/ice.2017.209     Document Type: Conference Paper

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