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Standardizing Direct Observation for Assessing Compliance to a Daily Chlorhexidine Bathing Protocol Among Hospitalized Patients

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 September 2016

Jackson S Musuuza ,
Ann Schoofs Hundt ,
Michele Zimbric ,
Pascale Carayon  and
Nasia Safdar
Jackson S Musuuza
Affiliation:
Institute of Clinical and Translational Research, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin William S. Middleton Memorial Veterans Hospital, Madison, Wisconsin
Ann Schoofs Hundt
Affiliation:
Center for Quality and Productivity Improvement, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin
Michele Zimbric
Affiliation:
Division of Infectious Disease, Department of Medicine, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin
Pascale Carayon
Affiliation:
Center for Quality and Productivity Improvement, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin.
Nasia Safdar*
Affiliation:
William S. Middleton Memorial Veterans Hospital, Madison, Wisconsin Division of Infectious Disease, Department of Medicine, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin.
*
Address correspondence to Nasia Safdar, MD, PhD, 5138 UWMF Centennial Building, 1685 Highland Avenue, Madison, WI 53705 (ns2@medicine.wisc.edu).
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Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 37 , Issue 12 , December 2016 , pp. 1516 - 1518
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© 2016 by The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America. All rights reserved 

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