Compliance of Health Care Workers with Hand Hygiene Practices: Independent Advantages of Overt and Covert Observers

BACKGROUND: Evaluation and feedback of hand hygiene (HH) compliance are important elements of the WHO multimodal strategy for hospital infection control. Overt observation is recommended, but it may be confounded by Hawthorne effect. Covert observation offers the opportunity to decrease observer bia...

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Main Authors: Pan, Sung-Ching, Tien, Kuei-Lien, Hung, I-Chen, Lin, Yu-Jiun, Sheng, Wang-Huei, Wang, Ming-Jiuh, Chang, Shan-Chwen, Kunin, Calvin M., Chen, Yee-Chun
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: Public Library of Science 2013
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3544847/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23341991
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0053746
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