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See one, do one, teach one: hand hygiene attitudes among medical students, interns, and faculty.

Polacco MA, Shinkunas L, Perencevich EN, Kaldjian LC, Reisinger HS. See one, do one, teach one: hand hygiene attitudes among medical students, interns, and faculty. American journal of infection control. 2015 Feb 1; 43(2):159-61.

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Abstract:

An anonymous, online survey of medical students, interns, and faculty at a university hospital was conducted in 2013 to examine self-reported adherence to hand hygiene opportunities. Variation in self-reported adherence ranged from frequencies of 60%-100%. Such variation suggests the need to direct education toward hand hygiene opportunities with lower reported rates of adherence, especially toward those opportunities that are difficult to monitor.




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