Patient education model for increasing handwashing compliance.

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• Publication year

  1999

• Venue

  American Journal of Infection Control

• Publication date

  1999-08-01

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Education

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  DOI 10.1016/S0196-6553(99)70049-0PMID 10433668
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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