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Developing and evaluating a novel intervention to improve the hand hygiene behaviour of nurses in acute care hospital units in the United States

2020-01-01

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Healthcare associated infections burden patients, raise healthcare costs, and can lead to death. It has been shown that adequate hand hygiene among healthcare workers is the simplest and most effective measure for preventing these infections. However, hand hygiene compliance rates are generally poor, with many initiatives seeking to address this problem. While there has been success in producing short-term changes...

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10.17037/pubs.04657204
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