Quantification of anesthesia providers' hand hygiene in a busy metropolitan operating room: what would Semmelweis think?

Chuck Biddle; Jagdip Shah

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Quantification of anesthesia providers' hand hygiene in a busy metropolitan operating room: what would Semmelweis think?

December 12, 2012

Biddle C, Shah J. Am J Infect Control. 2012;40(8):756-9.

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This study found that anesthesia providers had poor rates of hand hygiene, which led to multiple interventions based on a human factors engineering approach.

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