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Why Don't Doctors and Nurses Wash Their Hands?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Peter Heseltine
Peter Heseltine*
Affiliation:
Nichols Institute, San Juan Capistrano, California
*
Nichols Institute, 33608 Ortega Highway, San Juan Capistrano, CA 92690
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Information
Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 22 , Issue 4 , April 2001 , pp. 199 - 201
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Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 2001

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