Integration of hand hygiene in health-care workers behavior
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Introduction / objectives Healthcare workers (HCWs) hands play a crucial role in the transmission of micro organisms. Therefore, hand hygiene is acknowledged as the single most effective measure to prevent healthcare-associated infection. However many factors are interplaying making this simple, most effective preventive action not easy to be achieved, some are related to tools and others are in direct relation to behavioral incompetence of HCWs.
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