Title

• Do Patients Feel Comfortable Asking Healthcare Workers to Wash Their Hands?

Creator

• Ajay K. Sethi
• Andrew Ottum
• Elizabeth Anne Jacobs
• Meg Gaines
• Nasia Safdar
• Sara Zerbel

Published In

• Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

Date

• 2012

Volume

• 33

Bibliographic Citation

• 33 Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology 1282 (December 2012)

Abstract

• More than 1.7 million hospitalized patients develop healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) each year in the United States. Appropriate hand hygiene by healthcare workers (HCWs) is associated with reduced rates of HAI, but it is challenging to sustain.

Collections

• University of Wisconsin Law School Faculty Scholarship Collection