Workload Among Factors Influencing Hand Hygiene in Postanesthesia Care
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A study of hand hygiene in the postanesthesia care unit--it's about time!
AS a hospital epidemiologist, my inclination when I reviewed the article by Pittet et al. entitled “Hand-cleansing during Postanesthesia Care” was to say, “It’s about time someone addressed this issue in the PACU”! In contrast, readers of the Journal may be asking, “What’s the big deal? These authors haven’t demonstrated that poor compliance with hand-cleansing, or hand hygiene, in the PACU is ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology
سال: 2003
ISSN: 0899-823X,1559-6834
DOI: 10.1017/s0195941700079091