Hand Hygiene for Infection Prevention
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Patient-centered hand hygiene: the next step in infection prevention.
Hand hygiene has been recognized as the most important means of preventing the transmission of infection, and great emphasis has been placed on ways to improve hand hygiene compliance by health care workers (HCWs). Despite increasing evidence that patients' flora and the hospital environment are the primary source of many infections, little effort has been directed toward involving patients in ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Oleoscience
سال: 2021
ISSN: 1345-8949,2187-3461
DOI: 10.5650/oleoscience.21.101