Use of performance feedback to increase healthcare worker hand-hygiene behaviour.

نویسندگان

  • J McAteer
  • S Stone
  • J Roberts
  • S Michie
  • C Fuller
  • R Slade
  • A Charlett
  • B Cookson
  • B Cooper
  • G Duckworth
  • A Hayward
  • A Jeane
  • L Teare
چکیده

a Department of Psychology, University College London, UK b Academic Department of Geriatric Medicine, Hampstead Site, Royal Free and University College Medical School, UK c Health Services Research Unit, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK d Department of Primary Care and Population Sciences, Hampstead Site, Royal Free and University College Medical School, UK e Modelling and Economics Department, Communicable Disease Surveillance Centre, Health Protection Agency, Colindale, London, UK f Laboratory of HealthCare Associated Infection, Specialist and Reference Microbiology Division, Health Protection Agency, Colindale, London, UK g Division of Healthcare-associated Infection and Antimicrobial Resistance, Communicable Disease Surveillance Centre, Health Protection Agency, Colindale, London, UK h Infection Control, University College Hospital, London, UK Department of Microbiology, Mid Essex Hospitals, Chelmsford, UK

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • The Journal of hospital infection

دوره 66 3  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2007