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Monitoring Hand hygiene Compliance among Healthcare Workers at a Tertiary Care Center: Use of Secret Observers Is the Way Forward
BACKGROUND: Hand-hygiene (HH) is known to be the most effective way to reduce healthcare acquired conditions (HACs). Despite being a simple answer to the complex HAC issue, compliance with HH practice has been abysmal with reported compliance rate of 40% among healthcare workers (HCWs). In 2015, com...
Autores principales: | Krishna, Amar, Navalkele, Bhagyashri, Pervaiz, Amina, Kotecha, Aditya, Maroof, Shahram, Stern, Dale, Robinson, Katia, Kado, Jenna, Flanagan, Elaine, Hussain, Syed, Chopra, Teena |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2017
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5631104/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofx163.1023 |
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