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Behavioral Explanation of Noncompliance With Hand Hygiene

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Andreas Widmer MD
Andreas Widmer MD*
Affiliation:
Division of Infectious Diseases & Hospital Epidemiology, University of Basel Hospitals, Basel, Switzerland
*
Division of Infectious Diseases & Hospital Epidemiology, Petersgraben 4, CH-4031Basel, Switzerland ()awidmer@uhbs.ch)
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Letters to the Editor
Information
Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 28 , Issue 1 , January 2007 , pp. 106 - 107
Copyright
Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 2007

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