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Recurrent Visual Electronic Hand Hygiene Reminders in the Anesthesia Work Area

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 February 2016

David Rodriguez-Aldrete ,
Eellan Sivanesan ,
Shawn Banks ,
Ana Mavarez ,
Kristopher Arheart ,
Scott Eber  and
L. Silvia Munoz-Price
David Rodriguez-Aldrete
Affiliation:
Department of Anesthesiology, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, Florida
Eellan Sivanesan*
Affiliation:
Department of Anesthesiology, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, Florida
Shawn Banks
Affiliation:
Department of Anesthesiology, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, Florida
Ana Mavarez
Affiliation:
Department of Anesthesiology, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, Florida
Kristopher Arheart
Affiliation:
Department of Public Health Sciences, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, Florida Division of Biostatistics, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, Florida
Scott Eber
Affiliation:
Department of Anesthesiology, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, Florida
L. Silvia Munoz-Price
Affiliation:
Department of Medicine, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
*
Address correspondence and reprint requests to Eellan Sivanesan, MD, Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative Medicine, and Pain Management, Central 301 JMH, 1611 NW 12th Ave, Miami, FL 33136 (esivanesan@med.miami.edu).
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Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 37 , Issue 7 , July 2016 , pp. 872 - 874
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© 2016 by The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America. All rights reserved 

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