Hand Hygiene Project: Best Practices from Hospitals Participating in the Joint Commission Center for Transforming Healthcare Project.

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Hand Hygiene Project: Best Practices from Hospitals Participating in the Joint Commission Center for Transforming Healthcare Project.

December 8, 2010

Health Research and Educational Trust. Chicago, IL: American Hospital Association; 2010.

This report describes how teams participating in The Joint Commission’s Center for Transforming Healthcare hand hygiene initiative utilized techniques to examine hand hygiene processes and identified the most common reasons why clinicians don't wash their hands.

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