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Are hospitals too clean to trigger good hand hygiene
Journal of Hospital Infection, 06/17/09
Van Der Vegt DSJM et al. - Healthcare workers show different behaviour regarding hand hygiene inside and outside the healthcare setting. Perhaps the feeling of a ‘miasmic’ environment such as public toilets triggers better hand hygiene, whereas the relatively clean hospital environment may block the trigger for hand disinfection.
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