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Effect of Teaching Recommended World Health Organization Technique on the Use of Alcohol-Based Hand Rub by Medical Students

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

S. Tschudin Sutter ,
R. Frei ,
M. Dangel  and
A. F. Widmer
S. Tschudin Sutter
Affiliation:
Division of Infectious Diseases and Hospital Epidemiology, University Hospital Basel, Basel, Switzerland
R. Frei
Affiliation:
Division of Clinical Microbiology, University Hospital Basel, Basel, Switzerland
M. Dangel
Affiliation:
Division of Infectious Diseases and Hospital Epidemiology, University Hospital Basel, Basel, Switzerland
A. F. Widmer*
Affiliation:
Division of Infectious Diseases and Hospital Epidemiology, University Hospital Basel, Basel, Switzerland
*
Division of Infectious Diseases and Hospital Epidemiology, University Hospital Basel, Petersgraben 4, CH-4031 Basel, Switzerland, (widmera@uhbs.ch)
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Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 31 , Issue 11 , November 2010 , pp. 1194 - 1195
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Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 2010

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