TY  - SER
TI  - Healthcare workers are lax at shift's end
SN  - 0360-4039
PY  - 2015///
KW  - Hygiene
KW  - Medical personnel
KW  - Hands
KW  - Hospitals
KW  - Compliance
KW  - United States
N1  - Nursing
N2  - Nurses and other healthcare personnel who work in hospitals perform less and less hand hygiene as their workday progresses. In a study involving over 4,150 caregivers in 35 US hospitals, researchers found that "hand hygiene compliance rates dropped by a regression-estimated 8.7 percentage points on average from the beginning to the end of a typical 12-hour work shift. This decline in compliance was magnified by increased work intensity
ER  -