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Hand Hygiene: It's All About When and How

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Didier Pittet
Didier Pittet*
Affiliation:
Infection Control Program, University of Geneva Hospitals and Faculty of Medicine, and World Health Organization First Global Patient Safety Challenge, Word Health Organization Headquarters, Geneva, Switzerland
*
Infection Control Program, University of Geneva Hospitals and Faculty of Medicine, 24 Rue Micheli-du-Crest, 1211 Geneva 14, Switzerland ([email protected])
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Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 29 , Issue 10 , October 2008 , pp. 957 - 959
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Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 2008

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