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Impact of a Successful Speaking Up Program on Health-Care Worker Hand Hygiene Behavior

W. Matthew Linam, Michele Honeycutt, Craig Gilliam, Christy Wisdom, Jayant K. Deshpande

Pediatric Quality and Safety · 2017 · 13 citations · 28 references

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Abstract

Creating a specific process for staff to speak up and prevent HH failures, as part of a multimodal improvement effort, can sustainably increase HCW HH above 95%.

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