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Nationwide Benchmarking of Hand Hygiene Performance

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Benedetta Allegranzi ,
Andrew Stewardson  and
Didier Pittet
Benedetta Allegranzi
Affiliation:
First Global Patient Safety Challenge, Patient Safety Program, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland
Andrew Stewardson
Affiliation:
Infection Control Program and World Health Organization Collaborating Center on Patient Safety, University of Geneva Hospitals and Faculty of Medicine, Geneva, Switzerland
Didier Pittet*
Affiliation:
First Global Patient Safety Challenge, Patient Safety Program, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland Infection Control Program and World Health Organization Collaborating Center on Patient Safety, University of Geneva Hospitals and Faculty of Medicine, Geneva, Switzerland
*
Didier Pittet, MD, MS, Director, Infection Control Program and World Health Organization Collaborating Center on Patient Safety, University of Geneva Hospitals and Faculty of Medicine, 4 rue Gabrielle Perret-Gentil, 1211 Geneva 14, Switzerland (didier.pittet@ hcuge.ch)
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Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 33 , Issue 6 , June 2012 , pp. 621 - 623
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Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 2012 

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