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Increasing the frequency of hand washing by healthcare workers does not lead to commensurate reductions in staphylococcal infection in a hospital ward

BACKGROUND: Hand hygiene is generally considered to be the most important measure that can be applied to prevent the spread of healthcare-associated infection (HAI). Continuous emphasis on this intervention has lead to the widespread opinion that HAI rates can be greatly reduced by increased hand hy...

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Autores principales: Beggs, Clive B, Shepherd, Simon J, Kerr, Kevin G
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2008
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2553083/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18764942
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2334-8-114