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Measuring Hand Hygiene Compliance A New Frontier for Improving Hand Hygiene

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Andrew G. Sahud  and
Nitin Bhanot
Andrew G. Sahud*
Affiliation:
Division of Infectious Diseases, Allegheny General Hospital, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Nitin Bhanot
Affiliation:
Division of Infectious Diseases, Allegheny General Hospital, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
*
Division of Infectious Diseases, Allegheny General Hospital, 320 East North Avenue, South Tower, Pittsburgh, PA 15212 (asahud@wpahs.org)
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Information
Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 30 , Issue 11 , November 2009 , pp. 1132
Copyright
Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 2009

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