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Clinical Trial
. 1999 Oct 2;354(9185):1177-8.
doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(99)04196-3.

Adverse effects of contact isolation

K B Kirkland, J M Weinstein
Clinical Trial

Adverse effects of contact isolation

K B Kirkland et al. Lancet. .

Abstract

Health-care workers are half as likely to enter the rooms of patients in contact isolation, but are more likely to wash their hands after caring for them than after caring for patients not in isolation.

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