Hand hygiene deficiency citations in nursing homes.

Nicholas G Castle; Laura M Wagner; Jamie Ferguson; Steven Handler

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Hand hygiene deficiency citations in nursing homes.

September 26, 2012

Castle NG, Wagner LM, Ferguson J, et al. Journal of Applied Gerontology. 2012;33(1).

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In this study, nursing homes that received hand hygiene deficiency citations were more likely to have low staffing levels or to have received other citations for poor quality of care.

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