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Selling soap.

October 4, 2006

Dubner SJ; Levitt SD.

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This article discusses physician noncompliance with hand hygiene recommendations and describes several low-tech interventions, including a screensaver showing germs captured in a Petri dish off a physician's "clean" hands.

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