Nursing preference for alcohol-based hand rub volume
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Alcohol-based hand rub and nosocomial scabies.
minders remains a major challenge to individualized feedback strategies. More intensive efforts, beyond poster campaigns, may be necessary to encourage patients to remind HCWs. Prior patient feedback strategies used one-on-one patient information sessions; however, inpatient turnover imposes continual resource demands on that approach. Clinical leaders are needed to openly invite their teams to...
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عنوان ژورنال: Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology
سال: 2019
ISSN: 0899-823X,1559-6834
DOI: 10.1017/ice.2019.251