Hospital hand hygiene after COVID-19: has the pandemic heightened healthcare workers' awareness?
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Hand hygiene compliance in healthcare workers.
The 'clean-your-hands' campaign has now been introduced into hospitals in England but it was initially piloted in six acute trusts. The campaign was multi-modal and aimed to improve hand hygiene compliance. This review reports the findings from one of the trusts involved in the pilot. The campaign consisted of a toolkit that included placing alcohol hand rub beside patients, along with posters ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Population medicine
سال: 2023
ISSN: ['2654-1459']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.18332/popmed/165136