Knowledge and Beliefs about Hand Hygiene among Hospital Nurses
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Hand Hygiene Knowledge, Practices and Attitudes among Nurses and Physicians
Background: Hand hygiene is one of the most effective ways to control health care related infection. Nurses and physicians are the main health care workers contacting with patients, representing the vector in the chain of infection. Thus, assessing their knowledge, practice and attitudes regarding hand hygiene is very important to decrease the incidence of health care related infection and to i...
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عنوان ژورنال: Korean Journal of Occupational Health Nursing
سال: 2013
ISSN: 2287-2531
DOI: 10.5807/kjohn.2013.22.3.198