'Clean Care is Safer Care': the Global Patient Safety Challenge 2005-2006.

Didier Pittet; Benedetta Allegranzi; Julie Storr; Liam J. Donaldson

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'Clean Care is Safer Care': the Global Patient Safety Challenge 2005-2006.

September 13, 2006

Pittet D, Allegranzi B, Storr J, et al. Int J Infect Dis. 2006;10(6):419-24.

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The authors describe actions and implementation strategies suggested by the World Alliance for Patent Safety to minimize health care-associated infection.

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