Do patients feel comfortable asking healthcare workers to wash their hands?
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Author(s): Andrew Ottum, MPH; Ajay K. Sethi, PhD, MHS; Elizabeth A. Jacobs, MD, MPP; Sara Zerbel, MS; Martha E. Gaines, JD, LLM; Nasia Safdar, MD, PhD Source: Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology, Vol. 33, No. 12 (December 2012), pp. 1282-1284 Published by: The University of Chicago Press on behalf of The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/668419 . Accessed: 05/11/2013 14:40
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- Infection control and hospital epidemiology
دوره 33 12 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2012