Strategies to prevent healthcare-associated infections through hand hygiene.
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چکیده
Affiliations: 1. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia; 2. Westchester Medical Center and New York Medical College Department of Medicine, Valhalla, New York; 3. Gillings School of Global Public Health, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina; 4. The Joint Commission, Oakbrook Terrace, Illinois; 5. Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland; 6. St. Joseph Mercy Health System, Ann Arbor, Michigan; 7. Carver College of Medicine, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa; 8. Iowa City Veterans Administration Healthcare System, Iowa City, Iowa; 9. Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts; a. These authors contributed equally to this work. Received April 15, 2014; accepted May 2, 2014; electronically published July 16, 2014. Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol 2014;35(8):937-96
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عنوان ژورنال:
- Infection control and hospital epidemiology
دوره 35 8 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2014