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Beyond hand hygiene: a qualitative study of the everyday work of preventing cross-contamination on hospital wards

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  • Su-yin Hor School of Health Sciences, Faculty of Health, University of Tasmania, Darlinghurst, New South Wales, Australia PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Claire Hooker Centre for Values, Ethics and the Law in Medicine, The University of Sydney, Camperdown, New South Wales, Australia PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Rick Iedema School of Public Health & Preventive Medicine, Monash University,Clayton, Victoria, Australia PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Mary Wyer School of Health Sciences, Faculty of Health, University of Tasmania, Darlinghurst, New South Wales, Australia PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Gwendolyn L Gilbert Centre for Values, Ethics and the Law in Medicine, The University of Sydney, Camperdown, New South Wales, Australia Marie Bashir Institute for Infectious Diseases & Biosecurity, The University of Sydney, Westmead, New South Wales, Australia PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Christine Jorm Sydney Medical School, Sydney University, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Matthew Vincent Neil O'Sullivan Marie Bashir Institute for Infectious Diseases & Biosecurity, The University of Sydney, Westmead, New South Wales, Australia Centre for Infectious Diseases and Microbiology, Westmead Hospital, Westmead, New South Wales, Australia PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  1. Correspondence to Dr Su-yin Hor, University of Tasmania, School of Health Sciences, Education Centre, 1 Leichhardt St, Darlinghurst, NSW 2010, Australia; suyin.hor{at}utas.edu.au
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Hor S, Hooker C, Iedema R, et al
Beyond hand hygiene: a qualitative study of the everyday work of preventing cross-contamination on hospital wards
BMJ Quality & Safety 2017;26:552-558.

Publication history

  • Received July 8, 2016
  • Revised October 25, 2016
  • Accepted November 5, 2016
  • First published November 30, 2016.
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June 16, 2017

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