Hand hygiene: Attitudes and practices of nurses, a comparison between 2007 and 2015

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• Publication year

  2017

• Venue

  American Journal of Infection Control

• Publication date

  2017-12-01

• Fields of study

  Medicine

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  DOI 10.1016/j.ajic.2017.08.040PMID 29050908
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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