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.

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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.

February 10, 2010

Garcia-Williams A; Brinsley-Rainisch K; Schillie S; Sinkowitz-Cochran R.

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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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