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Quantification of the Hawthorne effect in hand hygiene compliance monitoring using an electronic monitoring system: a retrospective cohort study

BACKGROUND: The Hawthorne effect, or behaviour change due to awareness of being observed, is assumed to inflate hand hygiene compliance rates as measured by direct observation but there are limited data to support this. OBJECTIVE: To determine whether the presence of hand hygiene auditors was associ...

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Autores principales: Srigley, Jocelyn A, Furness, Colin D, Baker, G Ross, Gardam, Michael
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BMJ Publishing Group 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4251174/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25002555
http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjqs-2014-003080