Evaluation of hand hygiene: Is university medical education effective in prevention of hospital-acquired infections?
Objective: Hand hygiene (HH) compliance is associated with effective prevention of health care-associated infections (HAI), the topic being very important due to current COVID-19 pandemic. There is a growing debate about the role of educational institutions in the low HH compliance of health workers...
| Publicado en: | Central European Journal of Public Health Vol. 29; no. 2; pp. 102 - 109 |
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Central European Journal of Public Health
Jun2021
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