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To ask or not to ask?: the results of a formative assessment of a video empowering patients to ask their health care providers to perform hand hygiene.
Garcia-Williams A, Brinsley-Rainisch K, Schillie S, Sinkowitz-Cochran R. J Patient Saf. 2010;79:71-80.

Focus group participants were significantly more likely to ask their nurses and physicians to wash their hands after viewing a Hand Hygiene Saves Lives video.
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