138 HINIC: Hand Hygiene – Improving NICU Infection Control
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Since 2006, the German Society for Hospital Hygiene patronages the Journal “GMS (GermanMedical Science) Krankenhaushygiene Interdisziplinär”, an open access peer-reviewed PubMed listed e-journal. German Medical Science is a portal for online journals, meeting and research reports and offers all researchers in the field of medicine an open access to scientific articles and the possibility to pub...
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عنوان ژورنال: Paediatrics & Child Health
سال: 2019
ISSN: 1205-7088,1918-1485
DOI: 10.1093/pch/pxz066.137