Hand Hygiene: A Frequently Missed Lifesaving Opportunity During Patient Care
- 31 January 2004
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Elsevier BV in Mayo Clinic Proceedings
- Vol. 79 (1), 109-116
- https://doi.org/10.4065/79.1.109
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