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The impact of environmental cleanliness on infection rates.
Much has been said in recent years about the lack of environmental cleanliness in hospitals. The House of Lords Select Committee (1998) talked about falling standards in hospital cleaning and, more recently, the government acknowledged in The NHS Plan (Department of Health, 2000) that hospitals were unacceptably dirty. Such comments may affect people's perceptions of hospitals and, rather than ...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Clinical Medicine
سال: 2007
ISSN: 1470-2118,1473-4893
DOI: 10.7861/clinmedicine.7-5-531