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Improving Hand Hygiene Compliance with Point-of-Use Reminder Signs Designed Using Theoretically Grounded Messages

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 May 2016

Heather Schacht Reisinger*
Affiliation:
Center for Comprehensive Access and Delivery Research and Evaluation (CADRE), Iowa City Veterans Affairs (VA) Health Care System, Iowa City, Iowa Carver College of Medicine, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa
Eli N. Perencevich
Affiliation:
Center for Comprehensive Access and Delivery Research and Evaluation (CADRE), Iowa City Veterans Affairs (VA) Health Care System, Iowa City, Iowa Carver College of Medicine, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa
Daniel J. Morgan
Affiliation:
Maryland VA Health Care System, Baltimore, Maryland Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland
Graeme N. Forrest
Affiliation:
Portland VA Medical Center, Portland, Oregon
Michelle Shardell
Affiliation:
Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland
Marin L. Schweizer
Affiliation:
Center for Comprehensive Access and Delivery Research and Evaluation (CADRE), Iowa City Veterans Affairs (VA) Health Care System, Iowa City, Iowa Carver College of Medicine, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa
Margaret M. Graham
Affiliation:
Center for Comprehensive Access and Delivery Research and Evaluation (CADRE), Iowa City Veterans Affairs (VA) Health Care System, Iowa City, Iowa
Carrie L. Franciscus
Affiliation:
Center for Comprehensive Access and Delivery Research and Evaluation (CADRE), Iowa City Veterans Affairs (VA) Health Care System, Iowa City, Iowa
Mark W. Vander Weg
Affiliation:
Center for Comprehensive Access and Delivery Research and Evaluation (CADRE), Iowa City Veterans Affairs (VA) Health Care System, Iowa City, Iowa Carver College of Medicine, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa
*
601 Highway 6 West, Iowa City, IA 52246 (heather.reisinger@va.gov)

Abstract

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Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 2014

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