Creativity in hand hygiene program
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Creativity in hand hygiene program
Introduction / objectives During SARS, high compliance in healthcare workers to hand hygiene was primarily driven by fear.However, the post-SARS period confirmed that this practice was not sustainable.At the Singapore General Hospital, a 1600bedded acute tertiary care hospital, the hand hygiene program was revised in late 2006 following Singapore’s signing of the pledge to the WHO “Clean Care i...
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عنوان ژورنال: BMC Proceedings
سال: 2011
ISSN: 1753-6561
DOI: 10.1186/1753-6561-5-s6-p125