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Improving Healthcare Workers' Compliance With Hand Hygiene: Is a Picture Worth a Thousand Words?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Amy J. Ray ,
Claudia K. Hoyen ,
Elizabeth C. Eckstein  and
Curtis J. Donskey
Amy J. Ray
Affiliation:
Department of Medicine, University Hospitals of Cleveland
Claudia K. Hoyen
Affiliation:
Department of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Rainbow Babies and Children's Hospital
Elizabeth C. Eckstein
Affiliation:
Infection Control Department, Louis Stokes Cleveland Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center
Curtis J. Donskey
Affiliation:
Infection Control Department, Infectious Diseases Section, Louis Stokes Cleveland Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center Cleveland, Ohio
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Information
Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 23 , Issue 8 , August 2002 , pp. 418 - 419
Copyright
Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 2002

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