Hand hygiene campaigns in a low resource context: a Vietnam perspective
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Introduction / objectives Bach Mai tertiary hospital is a 1900 bed facility in Viet Nam. Previous hospital hand hygiene programs proved unsuccessful which prompted the director to launch an intensive hand hygiene campaign on 5 May 2009 to reduce health-care associated infection (HAI) using World Health Organization (WHO) tools. We would like to present the results and challenges of the Bach Mai hospital hand hygiene campaign.
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دوره 5 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2011