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Compliance with the World Health Organization Hand Hygiene Technique: A Prospective Observational Study

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2015

Sarah Tschudin-Sutter ,
Daniel Sepulcri ,
Marc Dangel ,
Heinz Schuhmacher  and
Andreas F. Widmer
Sarah Tschudin-Sutter
Affiliation:
Division of Infectious Diseases and Hospital Epidemiology, University Hospital Basel, Basel, Switzerland.
Daniel Sepulcri
Affiliation:
Division of Infectious Diseases and Hospital Epidemiology, University Hospital Basel, Basel, Switzerland.
Marc Dangel
Affiliation:
Division of Infectious Diseases and Hospital Epidemiology, University Hospital Basel, Basel, Switzerland.
Heinz Schuhmacher
Affiliation:
Division of Infectious Diseases and Hospital Epidemiology, University Hospital Basel, Basel, Switzerland.
Andreas F. Widmer*
Affiliation:
Division of Infectious Diseases and Hospital Epidemiology, University Hospital Basel, Basel, Switzerland.
*
Address correspondence to Dr. Andreas F. Widmer, Division of Infectious Diseases and Hospital Epidemiology, University Hospital Basel, Petersgraben 4, CH-4031 Basel, Switzerland (Andreas.Widmer@uhbs.ch).
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Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 36 , Issue 4 , April 2015 , pp. 482 - 483
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© 2015 by The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America. All rights reserved 

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Footnotes

Previous presentation of the data: The abstract was presented at the 24th European Congress of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, Barcelona, Spain 2014 and at the Meeting of the Swiss Society for Infectious Diseases, Aarau, Switzerland 2014.

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