Handwashing in the intensive care unit: a big measure with modest effects
- 31 March 2005
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Elsevier in Journal of Hospital Infection
- Vol. 59 (3), 172-179
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhin.2004.11.005
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