A multifaceted hospital-wide intervention increases hand hygiene compliance
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A multifaceted hospital-wide intervention increases hand hygiene compliance.
BACKGROUND Hand hygiene is an important and basic practice that should be used by all healthcare staff to protect both themselves and their patients against infection. Unfortunately hand hygiene compliance remains poor. OBJECTIVE To show an improvement in hand hygiene compliance using a multifaceted approach. METHODS This was a quasiexperimental pre-post intervention study design with a num...
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عنوان ژورنال: South African Medical Journal
سال: 2016
ISSN: 2078-5135
DOI: 10.7196/samj.2016.v106i4.10671