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New Insights for Improving Hand Hygiene Practices

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

John M. Boyce
John M. Boyce*
Affiliation:
Infectious Diseases Section, Hospital of Saint Raphael, New Haven, Connecticut
*
Infectious Diseases Section, Hospital of Saint Raphael, 1450 Chapel Street, New Haven, CT 06511
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Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 25 , Issue 3 , March 2004 , pp. 187 - 188
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Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 2004

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