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Chlorhexidine Bathing of Hospitalized Patients: Beliefs and Practices of Nurses and Patient Care Technicians, and Potential Barriers to Compliance

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 April 2015

Andrea Green Hines ,
Suzanne Nuss ,
Mark E. Rupp ,
Elizabeth Lyden ,
Kate Tyner  and
Angela Hewlett
Andrea Green Hines*
Affiliation:
Division of Infectious Diseases, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, Nebraska Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, Nebraska
Suzanne Nuss
Affiliation:
Nebraska Medicine, Omaha, Nebraska
Mark E. Rupp
Affiliation:
Division of Infectious Diseases, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, Nebraska Department of Infection Control and Epidemiology, Nebraska Medicine, Omaha, Nebraska
Elizabeth Lyden
Affiliation:
College of Public Health, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, Nebraska
Kate Tyner
Affiliation:
Department of Infection Control and Epidemiology, Nebraska Medicine, Omaha, Nebraska
Angela Hewlett
Affiliation:
Division of Infectious Diseases, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, Nebraska Department of Infection Control and Epidemiology, Nebraska Medicine, Omaha, Nebraska College of Public Health, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, Nebraska
*
Address correspondence to Andrea Green Hines, MD, 985400 Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE 68198-5400 ([email protected]).
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Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 36 , Issue 8 , August 2015 , pp. 993 - 994
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© 2015 by The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America. All rights reserved 

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