Compliance of hand washing practices: Theory versus practice
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Compliance of hand washing practices: theory versus practice.
Hand washing remains an important preventative method for making the transmission of nosocomial infections redundant. Despite awareness by health workers of the practices required and of the legislation governing hand washing, the study reported here found that compliance to these procedures was quite poor. The results of two surveys distributed to health workers and direct observation by clini...
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عنوان ژورنال: Australian Health Review
سال: 1998
ISSN: 0156-5788
DOI: 10.1071/ah980238