Two out of three medical students do not know when to wash their hands

ScienceDaily (Dec. 1, 2011) — Only 21 percent of surveyed medical students could identify five true and two false indications of when and when not to wash their hands in the clinical setting, according to a study published in the December issue of the American Journal of Infection Control, the official publication of APIC -- the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology.Three researchers from the Institute for Medical Microbiology and Hospital Epidemiology at Hannover...

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