Compliance with hand hygiene on surgical, medical, and neurologic intensive care units: Direct observation versus calculated disinfectant usage
- 31 December 2009
- journal article
- Published by Elsevier BV in American Journal of Infection Control
- Vol. 37 (10), 835-841
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ajic.2009.06.005
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