Hand hygiene deficiency citations in nursing homes.

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

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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