Hand hygiene and health-care-associated infections.

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No / Despite wide acknowledgment that hand hygiene is the pre-eminent measure in the control of health-care-associated infection, Didier Pittet and colleagues 1 have highlighted that there is still a need for a systematic programme of research that will allow the development of new¿as well as refinement of existing¿approaches to hand cleansing. One of the key priorities Pittet and colleagues identified is the need for investigations into the relative importance of between and within patient cross-transmission

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1. Banfield, K.R., Kerr, K.G., Jones, K.A. and Snelling, A.M. (2007). Hand hygiene and health-care-associated infections. The Lancet Infectious Diseases. Vol. 7, No. 5, p. 34.
2. http://hdl.handle.net/10454/3687
3. https://doi.org/10.1016/S1473-3099(07)70088-9

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Hand hygiene

Health-care-associated infection

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Identifer	oai:union.ndltd.org:BRADFORD/oai:bradscholars.brad.ac.uk:10454/3687
Date	19 October 2009
Creators	Banfield, Kathleen R., Kerr, Kevin G., Jones, K.A., Snelling, Anna M.
Source Sets	Bradford Scholars
Language	English
Detected Language	English
Type	Article, No full-text in the repository