Influence of role models and hospital design on hand hygiene of health care workers - Research

Emerging Infectious Diseases, Feb, 2003 by Mary G. Lankford, Teresa R. Zembower, William E. Trick, Donna M. Hacek, Gary A. Noskin, Lance R. Peterson

U.S. Public Health Service Grant no. UR8/CCU515081, the Excellence in Academic Medicine program from the State of Illinois, Northwestern Memorial Hospital, and Northwestern University supported this work.

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