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Association between hand hygiene compliance and methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus prevalence in a French rehabilitation hospital. |
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| Authors: | Emmanuelle Girou Patrick Legrand Sophan Soing-Altrach Astrid Lemire Celine Poulain Alexandra Allaire Latifa Tkoub-Scheirlinck Steeve Ho Tam Chai Catherine Dupeyron Catherine-Marie Loche |
| Affiliation: | Unité de Contr?le, Epidémiologie et Prévention de l'Infection, Creteil, France. emmanuelle.girou@hmn.aphp.fr |
| Abstract: | We simultaneously investigated the prevalence of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) and compliance with hand hygiene in the clinical wards of a French rehabilitation hospital. We found that the rate of hand hygiene compliance observed at the patient's bedside was a strong predictor of MRSA prevalence. |
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