The effect of a 5-year hand hygiene initiative based on the WHO multimodal hand hygiene improvement strategy: an interrupted time-series study

Abstract Background A World Health Organization (WHO) guideline-based multimodal hand hygiene (HH) initiative was introduced hospital-wide to a nonteaching Japanese hospital for 5 years. The objective of this study was to assess the effect of this initiative in terms of changes in alcohol-based hand...

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Main Authors: Yumi Suzuki, Motoko Morino, Ichizo Morita, Shigenori Yamamoto
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2020-05-01
Series:Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s13756-020-00732-7