Do Flashing Red Lights Help Improve Hand Hygiene Compliance at the Front Entrance of a Large Hospital?
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Hand hygiene is one of the most effective measures against the spread of infectious diseases. Compliance with hand hygiene among healthcare workers and visitors to the hospital varies but can be quite poor in some instances [1]. Hand hygiene upon first entering a health care institution has not been studied in detail and the few studies addressing it have indicated that compliance is quite poor [1,2].
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تاریخ انتشار 2014